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CVE-2026-40596GHSA-J3V9-553H-X28J

MantisBT is vulnerable to XSS and potential account takeover via user font family preference update

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 2.28.2
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Mantis Bug Tracker (MantisBT) is an open source issue tracker. Versions 2.11.0 through 2.28.1 allow any authenticated user to inject arbitrary HTML by updating their account's font family. Upon exploitation, an XSS payload would be reflected on every MantisBT page. Leveraging another vulnerability (CSP bypass, see GHSA-9c3j-xm6v-j7j3), the attacker could achieve account takeover. This issue has been fixed in version 2.28.2.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • mantisbt mantisbt

    From 2.11.0 · fixed in 2.28.2

  • mantisbt/mantisbtPackagist

    From 2.11.0 · fixed in 2.28.2

References 5

GitHub · mantisbt/mantisbt

mantisbt.org