CVE-2026-40598 PUBLISHED

MantisBT has Potential Referer-Based Reflected HTML Injection / XSS in Tag Update Page

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 14.04.2026 Published: 22.05.2026 Updated: 23.05.2026

Mantis Bug Tracker (MantisBT) is an open source issue tracker. In versions 2.28.1 and below, improper escaping of the redirection page (retrieved from the request's Referer header) allows an attacker to inject HTML. While this is generally not directly actionable as modern browsers will URL-encode special characters, on some specific server configurations this could poison the cache, leading to cross-site scripting. This issue has been fixed in version 2.28.2.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 6.9

Product Status

Vendor mantisbt
Product mantisbt
Versions
  • Version < 2.28.2 is affected

References

Problem Types

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