Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in config_defaults_inc.php in MantisBT before 1.2.8 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO, as demonstrated by the PATH_INFO to (1) manage_config_email_page.php, (2) manage_config_workflow_page.php, or (3) bugs/plugin.php.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201211-01 (MantisBT: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MantisBT. Please review       the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to conduct       directory traversal attacks, disclose the contents of local files, inject       arbitrary web scripts, obtain sensitive information, bypass       authentication and intended access restrictions, or manipulate bugs and       attachments.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Update to latest upstream release, fixes several security issues detailed in CVE-2011-2938

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
62867	GLSA-201211-01 : MantisBT: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
56353	Fedora 16 : mantis-1.2.8-1.fc16 (2011-12336)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
56223	Fedora 15 : mantis-1.2.8-1.fc15 (2011-12369)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2011-3356

medium

Tenable Plugins

high

medium

medium