Security advisory

{
  "id": "870bff85918cb6776af2fe9af6c3b59e619217f5423392775f2024a5ff0d1773",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-6955",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-6955",
    "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-6955",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-6955",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-6955"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/boonebgorges/invite-anyone",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "c5b7ae30541bf4bc82127a5bfa7aa4ea516e5d54"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:teleogistic:invite_anyone:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "1.3.13"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.3.13",
            "1.3.12",
            "1.3.11",
            "1.3.9",
            "1.2.1",
            "1.2",
            "1.1.1",
            "1.1.0",
            "1.0.26",
            "1.0.2",
            "1.0.1",
            "1.0",
            "0.9.3",
            "0.9.2",
            "0.8.9",
            "v0.8.8"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-6955.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:09.255494028Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/boonebgorges/invite-anyone/compare/2ed5266ad3ae40f8db39adf06f450bbad56e2eac...boonebgorges:6121de08df86c5005b657dd67e48aa02c7982855",
        "https://wordpress.org/plugins/invite-anyone/changelog/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-6955",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 381353,
  "published_at": "2017-03-17T09:59:00.197+00:00"
}