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GHSA-FH48-F69W-7VMP

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-03-25 19:56 – Updated: 2026-03-25 19:56

Summary

MantisBT Vulnerable to Stored HTML Injection in Tag Delete Confirmation

Details

Improper escaping of Tag name when deleting it in tag_delete.php allows an attacker to inject HTML and, if CSP settings permit, achieve execution of arbitrary JavaScript.

Impact

Cross-site scripting (XSS).

Patches

80990f43153167c73f11eb4b2bc7108d0c3d6b46

Workarounds

Revert commit d6890320752ecf37bd74d11fe14fe7dc12335be9
Manually edit language files to remove the sprintf placeholder %1$s from $s_tag_delete_message string, for example with sed -r -i '/tag_delete_message/s/.%1\$s.//' -- lang/

Credits

MantisBT hanks Vishal Shukla for discovering and responsibly reporting the issue.

Severity

8.6 (High)


                  
                    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

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      },
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              "introduced": "2.28.0"
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    "nvd_published_at": "2026-03-23T20:16:27Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "Improper escaping of Tag name when deleting it in tag_delete.php allows an attacker to inject HTML and, if CSP settings permit, achieve execution of arbitrary JavaScript.\n\n### Impact\nCross-site scripting (XSS).\n\n### Patches\n80990f43153167c73f11eb4b2bc7108d0c3d6b46\n\n### Workarounds\n* Revert commit d6890320752ecf37bd74d11fe14fe7dc12335be9\n* Manually edit language files to remove the sprintf placeholder `%1$s` from *$s_tag_delete_message*  string, for example with `sed -r -i \u0027/tag_delete_message/s/.%1\\$s.//\u0027 -- lang/`\n\n### Credits\nMantisBT hanks Vishal Shukla for discovering and responsibly reporting the issue.",
  "id": "GHSA-fh48-f69w-7vmp",
  "modified": "2026-03-25T19:56:00Z",
  "published": "2026-03-25T19:56:00Z",
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      "url": "https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/security/advisories/GHSA-fh48-f69w-7vmp"
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    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
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      "url": "https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=36971"
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  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
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      "score": "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",
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  ],
  "summary": "MantisBT Vulnerable to Stored HTML Injection in Tag Delete Confirmation"
}

CVE-2026-33517 (GCVE-0-2026-33517)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-23 19:13 – Updated: 2026-03-24 14:17

Title

MantisBT Vulnerable to Stored HTML Injection in Tag Delete Confirmation

Summary

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.

Severity

8.6 (High)


                        
                          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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-03-24 14:12 UTC

CWE

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

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7868 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/security/adv…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/80990…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/d6890…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
mantisbt	mantisbt	Affected: = 2.28.0

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Sightings

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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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