OSSN
Social networking software that allows you to make a social networking
Social networking software that allows you to make a social networking website and helps your members build social relationships, with people who share similar professional or personal interests.
Strengths
- Released under the CAL-1.0 license
- Active community (1.3k GitHub stars)
- Written in PHP
- Lightweight — runs in 512 MB RAM
Is OSSN secure?
No known vulnerabilities affect OSSN's latest release (10.1). OSV.dev lists 11 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.
- Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2026-108950, published 2026-10-12 (2 days ago), fixed in 10.1
Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.
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