social-media-skeleton vulnerable to Pre-Auth SQLi leading to RCE

published 2023-08-04 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-43074

cvss: 10.0; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.5%; EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits: 0; none known

social-media-skeleton is an uncompleted social media project. A SQL injection vulnerability in the project allows UNION based injections, which indirectly leads to remote code execution. Commit 3cabdd35c3d874608883c9eaf9bf69b2014d25c1 contains a fix for this issue.

Patch / fix

links 1

github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton@3cabdd3 commit

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: Proof of concept is public
Automatable: yes
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-10-04)

Exploit prediction

1.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

github.com https://github.com/fobybus/social-media-skeleton/security/advisories/GHSA-857x-p6fq-mgfh referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	10.0	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

fobybus social-media-skeleton

Classification

Weakness

CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command

References

github.com /fobybus/social-media-skeleton/commit/3cabdd35c3d874608883c9eaf9bf69b2014d25c1
patch
github.com /fobybus/social-media-skeleton/security/advisories/GHSA-857x-p6fq-mgfh
exploit, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2023-39344
NVD CVE-2023-39344

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Summary