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GHSA-9c3j-xm6v-j7j3 MantisBT has a Content Security Policy bypass via attachments
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-40597
- Ecosystem
- Packagist
- Packages
- mantisbt/mantisbt
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-358, CWE-79
- Reviewed
- 2026-05-11
Affected packages
• Packagist mantisbt/mantisbt: < 2.28.2 → fixed in 2.28.2
Description
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 `` 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.
Impact
Cross-site scripting
Patches
• 9e3bee2e7b909f4e3596985892b8bc8bee9e0bfe
Workarounds
None
Credits
Thanks to siunam (Tang Cheuk Hei) for discovering and responsibly reporting the issue.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-40597 Mantis Bug Tracker (MantisBT) is an open source issue tracker. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/security/advisories/GHSA-9c3j-xm6v-j7j3 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-40597 advisory
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/9e3bee2e7b909f4e3596985892b8bc8bee9e0bfe web
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt package
- https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=37016 web