CVE-2023-40174: Insufficient Session Expiration in fobybus/social-media-skeleton

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 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: 2023-08-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-613

Description

Social media skeleton is an uncompleted/framework social media project implemented using a php, css ,javascript and html. Insufficient session expiration is a web application security vulnerability that occurs when a web application does not properly manage the lifecycle of a user's session. Social media skeleton releases prior to 1.0.5 did not properly limit manage user session lifecycles. This issue has been addressed in version 1.0.5 and users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Affected products

fobybus social-media-skeleton: before 1.0.5 — fixed in 1.0.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: fobybus social-media-skeleton 1.0.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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