Unsalted passwords in fobybus/social-media-skeleton

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.66% · top 48% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• CWE-522: Insufficiently Protected Credentials (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-522 and its CVEs

Affected products

• fobybus · social-media-skeleton

  • affected < 1.0.5

References (3)

• https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/security/advisories/GHSA-rfmv-7m7g-v628 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/commit/344d798e82d6cc39844962c6d3cb2560f5907848 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/commit/df31da44ffed3ea065cbbadc3c8052d0d489a2ef (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2023-40173](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2023-40173.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2023-40173)

Record last updated 2 Oct 2024, 15:49 UTC.