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GHSA-J7V9-F46R-2RP4

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-05-11 19:39 – Updated: 2026-06-09 10:23

Summary

MantisBT is Vulnerable to Reflected XSS in Rendering Dynamic Custom Textarea Field

Details

Lack of validation of filter_target parameter on return_dynamic_filters.php (normally used as an AJAX in View Issues Page) allows an attacker to inject arbitrary HTML if the target is a TEXTAREA custom field.

Impact

Cross-site scripting (XSS)

Patches

c885af13f0b8596714ffe11df757c09f35fbd8f4

Workarounds

None

Credits

Thanks to siunam (Tang Cheuk Hei) for discovering and responsibly reporting the issue.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


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

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      },
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            {
              "introduced": "1.0.0"
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  },
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  "id": "GHSA-j7v9-f46r-2rp4",
  "modified": "2026-06-09T10:23:38Z",
  "published": "2026-05-11T19:39:22Z",
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/security/advisories/GHSA-j7v9-f46r-2rp4"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
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    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/c885af13f0b8596714ffe11df757c09f35fbd8f4"
    },
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      "type": "PACKAGE",
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    },
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      "type": "WEB",
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    }
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      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
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  ],
  "summary": "MantisBT is Vulnerable to Reflected XSS in Rendering Dynamic Custom Textarea Field"
}

CVE-2026-41897 (GCVE-0-2026-41897)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-28 20:26 – Updated: 2026-05-30 02:15

Title

MantisBT: Reflected XSS in Rendering Dynamic Custom Textarea Field

Summary

Mantis Bug Tracker (MantisBT) is an open source issue tracker. From 1.0.0 to 2.28.1, lack of validation of filter_target parameter on return_dynamic_filters.php (normally used as an AJAX in View Issues Page) allows an attacker to inject arbitrary HTML if the target is a TEXTAREA custom field. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.28.2.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-05-30 02:15 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 7609 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/c885a…	x_refsource_MISC
https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=37013	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
mantisbt	mantisbt	Affected: >= 1.0.0, < 2.28.2

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