CVE-2023-39518 social-media-skeleton stored Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
An attacker can inject malicious scripts into the social-media-skeleton web application, potentially compromising user sessions and data.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-39518?
CVE-2023-39518 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in fobybus social-media-skeleton, published on 8 Aug 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-39518?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Fobybus Social-Media-Skeleton.
How do I fix CVE-2023-39518?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-39518 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2023-39518 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-39518 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in fobybus social-media-skeleton
- CVE-2023-39344 social-media-skeleton vulnerable to Pre-Auth SQLi leading to RCE
- CVE-2023-40173 Unsalted passwords in fobybus/social-media-skeleton
- CVE-2023-40174 Insufficient Session Expiration in fobybus/social-media-skeleton
- CVE-2023-40172 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in fobybus/social-media-skeleton
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2jxx-r967-f76p.