CVE-2023-40174

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    CVE-2023-40174

    Published: 18 Aug 2023Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary: Insufficient Session Expiration in fobybus/social-media-skeleton

    Details: 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.

    References: https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/40xxx/CVE-2023-40174.json, https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/security/advisories/GHSA-cr5c-ggwq-g4hq, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-40174, https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/commit/99738b2cc5efb6a5739161c931daa43f99431e5a

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -ea5d199c05fa2a0c1fafbfca44734676d2d9d851

    Affected versions

    1.0.4
    1.0.3

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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