CVE-2026-40596
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
7.2
VIR risk
8.0
Description
MantisBT is Vulnerable to XSS leading to account takeover via updating a user's font family preference
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ if you've already worked around this in production โ publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
โ Propose a mitigation on Community โ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Packagist | mantisbt/mantisbt | >=2.11.0,<=2.28.1 | |
| Packagist | mantisbt/mantisbt | >=2.11.0,<2.28.2 | 2.28.2 |
| COMPOSER | mantisbt/mantisbt | >= 2.11.0, <= 2.28.1 | 2.28.2 |
References
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j3v9-553h-x28j
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/9e8409cdd979eba86ef532756fc47c1d8112d22d
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/security/advisories/GHSA-9c3j-xm6v-j7j3
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/security/advisories/GHSA-j3v9-553h-x28j
- https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=37011
- https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=37016
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.