CVE-2026-40596 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 14.04.2026 Published: 22.05.2026 Updated: 22.05.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:L/VA:L/SC:H/SI:H/SA:L
CVSS Score: 7.2

Product Status

Vendor mantisbt
Product mantisbt
Versions
  • Version >= 2.11.0, < 2.28.2 is affected

References

Problem Types

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