CVE-2023-40172

Summary

CVE-2023-40172 is a vulnerability affecting the Social media skeleton project before version 1.0.5. This uncompleted social media framework, built using PHP, CSS, JavaScript, and HTML, was susceptible to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks. In such attacks, an attacker deceives a user into executing unwanted actions on a website. This issue has been rectified in version 1.0.5, and users are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible. Unfortunately, there are no known workarounds for this vulnerability, making the update the most effective solution.

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