GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Packagist

GHSA-9c3j-xm6v-j7j3 MantisBT has a Content Security Policy bypass via attachments

HIGH Published 2026-05-11 Modified 2026-06-08 Official page ↗
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

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-358 Improperly Implemented Security Check for Standard weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References