CVE-2017-6955 — An issue was discovered in by-email/by-email
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.
Published
2017-03-17T09:59:00.197
Last modified
2026-05-13T00:24:29.033
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
01What is this vulnerability?
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.
02Affected products
No structured affected-product list available — see references below for vendor advisories.
03Active exploitation status
Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.
04Recommended remediation
- Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
- Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
- Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.
05Technical details
For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.
06Detection signatures
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07Related CVEs
No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.
08Timeline
- Published: 2017-03-17T09:59:00.197
- Last modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033
09References
- www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96965
- github.com — https://github.com/boonebgorges/invite-anyone/compare/2ed5266ad3ae40f8db39adf06f…
- wordpress.org — https://wordpress.org/plugins/invite-anyone/changelog/
- www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96965
- github.com — https://github.com/boonebgorges/invite-anyone/compare/2ed5266ad3ae40f8db39adf06f…
- wordpress.org — https://wordpress.org/plugins/invite-anyone/changelog/
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