CVE-2026-40598

Mantis Bug Tracker (MantisBT) is an open source issue tracker. In versions 2.28.1 and below, improper escaping of the redirection page (retrieved from the request's Referer header) allows an attacker to inject HTML. While this is generally not directly actionable as modern browsers will URL-encode special characters, on some specific server configurations this could poison the cache, leading to cross-site scripting. This issue has been fixed in version 2.28.2.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/b1ebc57763f104eb5f541b7b4d1ce6948168abd9
https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/security/advisories/GHSA-6jh4-47v2-4g37
https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=37017
https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=37017

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-05-22 20:16

Updated : 2026-07-23 16:10

NVD link : CVE-2026-40598

Mitre link : CVE-2026-40598

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-40598

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-79

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

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