CVE-2023-39518 — social-media-skeleton is an uncompleted social media project implemented using P

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.

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
fobybus	social	media-skeleton — >= 1.0.0, < 1.0.3

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-08-08T18:31:36.446Z
• Last modified: 2024-10-03T15:53:26.257Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/security/advisories/GHSA-2jxx-r…
• github.com — https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/pull/4
• github.com — https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/commit/6765d1109016e1f1d707ef47…