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high 7.5

CVE-2014-7146 in the critical feed json

The XmlImportExport plugin in MantisBT 1.2.17 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a crafted (1) descripti…

published 2014-11-18 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-7023

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
50.6%
EPSS 50.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
3
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

The XmlImportExport plugin in MantisBT 1.2.17 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a crafted (1) description field or (2) issuelink attribute in an XML file, which is not properly handled when executing the preg_replace function with the e modifier.

Patch / fix

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-2014-7146 updated cvss 6.4

mantis: issues in the XML Import/Export plug-in to be fixed in the upcoming 1.2.18 release

  • 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

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/multi/http/mantisbt_php_exec)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

50.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • Metasploit exploit/multi/http/mantisbt_php_exec MantisBT XmlImportExport Plugin PHP Code Injection Vulnerability metasploit exploit, great rank, 2014-11-08
  • EDB-41685 Mantis Bug Tracker 1.2.0a3 < 1.2.17 XmlImportExport Plugin - PHP Code Injection (Metasploit) (1) webapps, 2014-11-18
  • EDB-35283 Mantis Bug Tracker 1.2.0a3 < 1.2.17 XmlImportExport Plugin - PHP Code Injection (Metasploit) (2) remote, 2014-11-18

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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