{"id":"CVE-2017-6955","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-6955","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T19:47:47.519Z","title":"An issue was discovered in by-email/by-email.php in the Invite Anyone plugin before 1.3.15 for WordPress.","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":"2017-03-17T09:59:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:23:22.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":["teleogistic/invite anyone"],"epss":{"score":0.01794,"percentile":0.78303,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.79%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96965","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/boonebgorges/invite-anyone/compare/2ed5266ad3ae40f8db39adf06f450bbad56e2eac...boonebgorges:6121de08df86c5005b657dd67e48aa02c7982855","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/invite-anyone/changelog/","tags":["Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96965","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/boonebgorges/invite-anyone/compare/2ed5266ad3ae40f8db39adf06f450bbad56e2eac...boonebgorges:6121de08df86c5005b657dd67e48aa02c7982855","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://wordpress.org/plugins/invite-anyone/changelog/","tags":["Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-6955","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}