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CVE-2017-7620 json

MantisBT vulnerable to CSRF and Open Redirect attacks

published 2017-05-21 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-9x76-mp7r-2xc5 , EUVD-2017-16625

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 71%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

MantisBT before 1.3.11, 2.x before 2.3.3, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1 omits a backslash check in string_api.php and consequently has conflicting interpretations of an initial \/ substring as introducing either a local pathname or a remote hostname, which leads to (1) arbitrary Permalink Injection via CSRF attacks on a permalink_page.php?url= URI and (2) an open redirect via a login_page.php?return= URI.

Patch / fix

  • packagist mantisbt/mantisbt 1.3.11, 2.3.3, 2.4.1

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-2017-7620 updated cvss 5.4

mantis: Permalink Injection via CSRF attacks on a permalink_page.php?url= URI

  • 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 (EDB-42043)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

1.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-42043 Mantis Bug Tracker 1.3.10/2.3.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery webapps, 2017-05-20
  • hyp3rlinx.altervista.org http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MANTIS-BUG-TRACKER-CSRF-PERMALINK-INJECTION.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
packagist mantisbt/mantisbt
<1.3.11
>=2.0.0, <2.3.3
>=2.4.0, <2.4.1
1.3.11
2.3.3
2.4.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

References

Sources

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