SCA: security update for mantisbt/mantisbt (GHSA-j7v9-f46r-2rp4)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 441742

Description

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

- Mantis Bug Tracker (MantisBT) is an open source issue tracker. From 1.0.0 to 2.28.1, lack of validation of
filter_target parameter on return_dynamic_filters.php (normally used as an AJAX in View Issues Page)
allows an attacker to inject arbitrary HTML if the target is a TEXTAREA custom field. This vulnerability
is fixed in 2.28.2. (CVE-2026-41897)

Solution

Update the mantisbt/mantisbt library and its related packages to version 2.28.2 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j7v9-f46r-2rp4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 441742

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/12/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.3

Percentile: 9.39

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-41897

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 1.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/11/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/11/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-41897

cwe: CWE-79