Invite Anyone <= 1.3.14 - Change of Email Invitation Content

5.3
Improper Input Validation
CVE CVE-2017-6955
CVSS 5.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published March 17, 2017
Last Updated December 12, 2022
Researcher Unknown

Description

An issue was discovered in by-email/by-email.php in the Invite Anyone plugin before 1.3.15 for WordPress. A user is able to change the subject and the body of the invitation mail that should be immutable, which facilitates a social engineering attack.

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Vulnerability Details for Invite Anyone

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug invite-anyone (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 1.3.15, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 1.3.15
Patched Version
  • 1.3.15

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