CVE-2017-6955 in Invite Anyone Plugin

Summary

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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• Reservation: 03/17/2017
• Disclosure: 03/17/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-98223 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-20 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 5.9
• EPSS: 0.00882
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-6955
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6955
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-6955/