CVE-2026-40596 (GCVE-0-2026-40596)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-22 19:25 – Updated: 2026-05-22 20:10
VLAI
Title
MantisBT is vulnerable to XSS and potential account takeover via user font family preference update
Summary
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.
Severity
7.2 (High)
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
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mantisbt mantisbt Affected: >= 2.11.0, < 2.28.2
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