Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in mantisbt/mantisbt (CVE-2026-40597)
Summary
Cross-site scripting in mantisbt/mantisbt (CVE-2026-40597). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 2.28.2 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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 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.
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-40597 has been found in mantisbt/mantisbt.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade mantisbt/mantisbt to 2.28.2 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "mantisbt/mantisbt CVE-2026-40597" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-40597 (mantisbt/mantisbt) — CWE-79
Patched: 2.28.2 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) (CWE-79) exists in mantisbt/mantisbt.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of mantisbt/mantisbt.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 2.28.2.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'mantisbt/mantisbt' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'mantisbt/mantisbt' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
mantisbt/mantisbtを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade mantisbt/mantisbt to 2.28.2ステージング環境で 2.28.2 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- advisory github.com
- package github.com
- patch github.com
- web mantisbt.org
- web github.com