{"id":78735,"date":"2026-05-22T23:02:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-40598-mantisbt-has-potential-referer-based-reflected-html-injection-xss-in-tag-update-page\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T23:02:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:32:35","slug":"cve-2026-40598-mantisbt-has-potential-referer-based-reflected-html-injection-xss-in-tag-update-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-40598-mantisbt-has-potential-referer-based-reflected-html-injection-xss-in-tag-update-page\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-40598 &#8211; MantisBT has Potential Referer-Based Reflected HTML Injection \/ XSS in Tag Update Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-40598<\/p>\n<p>  Published : May 22, 2026, 7:32 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 25\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :Mantis Bug Tracker (MantisBT) is an open source issue tracker. In versions 2.28.1 and below, improper escaping of the redirection page (retrieved from the request&#8217;s Referer header) allows an attacker to inject HTML. While this is generally not directly actionable as modern browsers will URL-encode special characters, on some specific server configurations this could poison the cache, leading to cross-site scripting. This issue has been fixed in version 2.28.2.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 0.0 | NA<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-40598 Published : May 22, 2026, 7:32 p.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 25\u00a0minutes ago Description :Mantis Bug Tracker (MantisBT) is an open source issue tracker. In versions 2.28.1 and below, improper escaping of the redirection page (retrieved from the request&#8217;s Referer header) allows an attacker to inject HTML. While this is generally not directly actionable &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}