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Insufficient Session Expiration in fobybus/social-media-skeleton

Type: advisorySources: OSV

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.

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CVEs
CVE-2023-40174
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5 Nov 2026, 02:05 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Insufficient Session Expiration in fobybus/social-media-skeleton

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 Aug 2023, 21:41 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2023-40174
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-40174",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "Insufficient Session Expiration in fobybus/social-media-skeleton",
    "summary": "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.",
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