CVEPublished 2026-05-22Modified 2026-07-230 articles on news5 live referencesNVD data

CVE-2026-40597

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1
EPSS percentile
39
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 61% of all CVEs
Description

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 <script> 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.

Timeline
Published 2026-05-22
Modified 2026-07-23

External references

Search for exposed instances

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Known PoCs on GitHub (2)

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