CVE-2026-53514

HIGH

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

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

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

CVSS v3 7.7
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-287 CWE-345 CWE-441 CWE-862
Status published
Products (3)
better-auth/better-auth < 1.6.11
better-auth/better_auth < 1.6.11
npm/better-auth 0 - 1.6.11npm
Published Jul 15, 2026
Tracked Since Jul 15, 2026