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SCA: security update for mantisbt/mantisbt (GHSA-j3v9-553h-x28j)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 441735

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. Versions 2.11.0 through 2.28.1 allow any
 authenticated user to inject arbitrary HTML by updating their account's font family. Upon exploitation, an
 XSS payload would be reflected on every MantisBT page. Leveraging another vulnerability (CSP bypass, see
 GHSA-9c3j-xm6v-j7j3), the attacker could achieve account takeover. This issue has been fixed in version
 2.28.2. (CVE-2026-40596)

Solution

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

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j3v9-553h-x28j

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 441735

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 5/12/2026

Updated: 5/27/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

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-2026-40596

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: High

Base Score: 7.2

Threat Score: 4.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

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-2026-40596

cwe: CWE-79