High 7.2Published May 22, 2026

CVE-2026-40596MantisBT is vulnerable to XSS and potential account takeover via user font family preference update

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 26, 2026, 4:10 PM ET)

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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.

CVSS: 7.2 HIGH (v4.0, CNA)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
Weakness (CWE): CWE-79
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Deferred
Record last updated: May 22, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

mantisbt mantisbt mantisbt:mantisbt (from the name)	from 2.11.0, < 2.28.2	CNA record

References

References

https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/security/advisories/GHSA-j3v9-553h-x28j	x-refsource-confirm
https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/security/advisories/GHSA-9c3j-xm6v-j7j3	x-refsource-misc
https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/9e8409cdd979eba86ef532756fc47c1d8112d22d	x-refsource-misc
https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=37011	x-refsource-misc
https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=37016	x-refsource-misc

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