CVE-2026-40597
MantisBT has a Content Security Policy bypass via attachments
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.6 High
- Published
- May 22, 2026
- Updated
- May 26, 2026
- Reserved
- Apr 14, 2026
Description
Mantis Bug Tracker (MantisBT) is an open source issue tracker. In versions 2.28.1 and below, given any pre-existing XSS / HTML injection vulnerability, an attacker can bypass the Content Security Policy's script-src directive by uploading a crafted attachment to any issue that, when accessed via the file_download.php link, will be downloaded with a valid JavaScript MIME type resulting in script execution. The uploaded payload must be sniffed as a valid JavaScript MIME type by PHP finfo (see file_create_finfo() API function). Non-JavaScript MIME types will not get imported in a <script> tag by the browser, due to response header X-Content-Type-Options being set to nosniff, which requires all imported JavaScript files to be a valid JavaScript MIME type. This issue has been fixed in version 2.28.2.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 7.6 High | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
mantisbtmantisbt |
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References
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