Medium

SocialNetwork Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

  • Disclosed: 17.05.2022
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

A Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) was discovered in 'SocialNetwork v1.2.1'. The vulnerability exists due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data (mail) passed to the 'SocialNetwork-andrea/app/template/pw_forgot.php' URL. An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website. A patch for the vulnerability is available at https://github.com/andreas83/SocialNetwork/commit/1b0799d08fda2f3099beaae1234b8b468deb8db1

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Composer package movingbytes/social-network <= 1.2.1 no fix

References

CVSS score 6.1/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-79
Platform
Composer
Package
movingbytes/social-network
Disclosed
17.05.2022
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-3fm8-7gpf-p8fm - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: movingbytes/social-network

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