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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.1

CVE-2022-26144 json

MantisBT vulnerable to XSS due to improper escape in manage_plugin_page.php and manage_plugin_uninstall.php

published 2022-04-13 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-rqgj-rqfr-5j6f , EUVD-2022-30711

cvss
6.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 57%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An XSS issue was discovered in MantisBT before 2.25.3. Improper escaping of a Plugin name allows execution of arbitrary code (if CSP allows it) in manage_plugin_page.php and manage_plugin_uninstall.php when a crafted plugin is installed.

Patch / fix

  • packagist mantisbt/mantisbt 2.25.3
  • mantisbt mantisbt 2.25.3

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-26144 updated cvss 6.5

mantisbt: XSS in manage_plugin_page.php and manage_plugin_uninstall.php

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.83% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 57% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist mantisbt/mantisbt
<2.25.3
2.25.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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