CVE-2017-6955 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2017-03-17

Score: 5.3 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:teleogistic:invite_anyone:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2017-15993	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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00882.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96965
https://github.com/boonebgorges/invite-anyone/compare/2ed5266ad3ae40f8db39adf06f450bbad56e2eac...boonebgorges:6121de08df86c5005b657dd67e48aa02c7982855
https://wordpress.org/plugins/invite-anyone/changelog/

History

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Subscriptions

Teleogistic Invite Anyone

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-03-17T08:55:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:49:02.682Z

Reserved: 2017-03-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-6955

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-03-17T09:59:00.197

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-6955

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-20

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