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CVE-2023-39518: social-media-skeleton stored Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-08-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

social-media-skeleton is an uncompleted social media project implemented using PHP, MySQL, CSS, JavaScript, and HTML. Versions 1.0.0 until 1.0.3 have a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability. The problem is patched in v1.0.3.

Affected products

• fobybus social-media-skeleton: before 1.0.3 — fixed in 1.0.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: fobybus social-media-skeleton 1.0.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/commit/6765d1109016e1f1d707ef47917927c7704e6428
• https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/pull/4
• https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/security/advisories/GHSA-2jxx-r967-f76p
• https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/commit/6765d1109016e1f1d707ef47917927c7704e6428
• https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/pull/4
• https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/security/advisories/GHSA-2jxx-r967-f76p

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