CVE-2014-8987

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-08-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the "set configuration" box in the Configuration Report page (adm_config_report.php) in MantisBT 1.2.13 through 1.2.17 allows remote administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the config_option parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-8986.

Affected products

mantisbt: 1.2.13, 1.2.14, 1.2.15, 1.2.16, 1.2.17

References

http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=17870
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/14/9
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/15/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/15/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/15/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/19/21
https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/49c3d089
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=17870
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/14/9
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/15/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/15/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/15/4

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