CVE-2026-33517 PUBLISHED

MantisBT Vulnerable to Stored HTML Injection in Tag Delete Confirmation

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 20.03.2026 Published: 23.03.2026 Updated: 24.03.2026

Mantis Bug Tracker (MantisBT) is an open source issue tracker. In version 2.28.0, when deleting a Tag (tag_delete.php), improper escaping of its name when displaying the confirmation message allows an attacker to inject HTML and, if CSP settings permit, achieve execution of arbitrary JavaScript. Version 2.28.1 fixes the issue. Workarounds include reverting commit d6890320752ecf37bd74d11fe14fe7dc12335be9 and/or manually editing language files to remove the sprintf placeholder %1$s from $s_tag_delete_message string.

Metrics

CVSS 4.0

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.6

Exploitability Metrics		Vulnerable System Impact Metrics		Subsequent System Impact Metrics
Attack Vector	Network	Confidentiality	High	Confidentiality	None
Attack Complexity	Low	Integrity	High	Integrity	None
Attack Requirements	None	Availability	High	Availability	None
Privileges Required	Low
User Interaction	Passive

CVSS 4.0

Product Status

Vendor	mantisbt
Product	mantisbt
Versions	Version = 2.28.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') CWE