PT-2017-17422 · WordPress · Invite Anyone

Published 2017-03-17 · Updated 2021-09-09 · CVE-2017-6955

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Invite Anyone plugin versions prior to 1.3.15

Description A security issue was found in the Invite Anyone plugin for WordPress, where a user can modify the subject and body of invitation emails, which are supposed to be unchangeable. This allows for social engineering attacks.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.3.15, update to version 1.3.15 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the by-email.php file in the Invite Anyone plugin to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-6955

Affected Products

Invite Anyone

References · 6

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-6955 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6955 · Security Note
• https://github.com/boonebgorges/invite-anyone/compare/2ed5266ad3ae40f8db39adf06f450bbad56e2eac...boonebgorges:6121de08df86c5005b657dd67e48aa02c7982855 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6955 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/96965 · Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/invite-anyone/changelog · Note