CVE-2026-53514

Better Auth: Unauthorized invitation acceptance via unverified email match in organization plugin

State
Published
Severity
7.7 High
Published
Jul 15, 2026
Updated
Jul 18, 2026
Reserved
Jun 9, 2026

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Description

Better Auth is an authentication and authorization library for TypeScript. Prior to 1.6.11, and in 1.6.14 and later when invitation IDs can be obtained outside the invited mailbox and requireEmailVerificationOnInvitation: true is not enabled, the organization plugin's acceptInvitation, rejectInvitation, getInvitation, and listUserInvitations recipient endpoints use session.user.email and an invitation ID without sufficient verified-email ownership proof, allowing a user with an unverified session for the invited email address to accept an organization invitation after obtaining the invitation ID. This issue is fixed for the original default behavior in version 1.6.11, while 1.6.14 restored compatibility for built-in opaque invitation IDs and leaves affected configurations requiring secure options.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.7 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication
  • CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
  • CWE-441 Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy')
  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Affected Products

ProductVersions
better-authbetter-auth
  • < 1.6.11Affected

References

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