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SCA: security update for mantisbt/mantisbt (GHSA-8r2m-qhff-jm2c)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 434841

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the MantisBT (2.3.x before 2.3.2) Timeline include page,
 used in My View (my_view_page.php) and User Information (view_user_page.php) pages, allows remote
 attackers to inject arbitrary code (if CSP settings permit it) through crafted PATH_INFO in a URL, due to
 use of unsanitized $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] to generate URLs. (CVE-2017-7897)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8r2m-qhff-jm2c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 434841

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/20/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 8.67

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7897

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/18/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7897

BID: 99181

cwe: CWE-79