MantisBT 1.2.13 < 1.2.18 XSS

low Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 8906

Synopsis

The remote web server is hosting an outdated web application that is vulnerable to multiple cross-site scripting attacks.

Description

The remote web server is hosting MantisBT, an open source bug tracking application written in PHP.

Versions of MantisBT 1.2.13 prior to 1.2.18 are affected by two cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the 'adm_config_report.php' script due to lack of user input sanitization. Special characters such as double quotes or < and > are not filtered before being reflected. Additionally, user-supplied input submitted to the 'config_option' parameter is not checked for validity when passed to the script. This could allow a remote attacker to create a specially crafted request that would execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser session within the trust relationship between the browser and server.

Solution

Upgrade to MantisBT 1.2.18 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?54499621

http://www.mantisbt.org/blog/?p=301

http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=17889

http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=17870

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 8906

Family: CGI

Published: 2/18/2015

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 80914

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mantisbt:mantisbt

Patch Publication Date: 12/6/2014

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/5/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8986, CVE-2014-8987

BID: 71184, 71197