CVE-2023-40173
HighCVSS 7.5Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk41th percentile - higher than 41% of all known CVEs
Summary
Social Media Skeleton prior to version 1.0.5 did not properly salt passwords, making them susceptible to cracking if an attacker gained access to hashed passwords.
Risk Assessment
The lack of proper password salting increases the risk of user account compromise, potentially leading to unauthorized access to data.
Recommendation
It is recommended to upgrade to version 1.0.5 or later to secure user passwords.
Other vulnerabilities in Social Media Skeleton
See all- CVE-2023-39344Critical
The social-media-skeleton project has a SQL injection vulnerability that allows UNION based injections, which indirectly leads to remote code execution. A fix has been introduced in commit 3cabdd35c3d874608883c9eaf9bf69b2014d25c1.
- CVE-2023-40174Medium
CVE-2023-40174 affects the Social media skeleton project, which improperly manages the user session lifecycle. Versions prior to 1.0.5 did not adequately limit session duration, posing a risk of unauthorized access.
- CVE-2023-40172Medium
CVE-2023-40172 affects the Social media skeleton project, which prior to version 1.0.5 did not properly restrict Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. An attacker could trick a victim into performing unintended actions on a website.
- CVE-2023-39518Medium
The social-media-skeleton project, implemented using PHP, MySQL, CSS, JavaScript, and HTML, has a stored XSS vulnerability in versions 1.0.0 to 1.0.3. The issue is patched in version 1.0.3.
Original NVD description (English source)
Social media skeleton is an uncompleted/framework social media project implemented using a php, css ,javascript and html. Prior to version 1.0.5 Social media skeleton did not properly salt passwords leaving user passwords susceptible to cracking should an attacker gain access to hashed passwords. This issue has been addressed in version 1.0.5 and users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.