Vulnerability CVE-2023-40173
Published: 2023-08-18   Modified: 2023-08-19

Description:
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.

Type:

CWE-522

 (Insufficiently Protected Credentials)

 References:
https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/commit/344d798e82d6cc39844962c6d3cb2560f5907848
https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/commit/df31da44ffed3ea065cbbadc3c8052d0d489a2ef
https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/security/advisories/GHSA-rfmv-7m7g-v628
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