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.
Advisories
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GHSA-j3v9-553h-x28j | MantisBT is Vulnerable to XSS leading to account takeover via updating a user's font family preference |
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | MantisBT is vulnerable to XSS and potential account takeover via user font family preference update | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-79 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-05-22T20:10:16.176Z
Reserved: 2026-04-14T14:07:59.641Z
Link: CVE-2026-40596
Updated: 2026-05-22T20:10:12.843Z
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-05-22T22:15:27Z
Weaknesses
Github GHSA