CVE-2017-7897

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2017-04-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the MantisBT (2.3.x before 2.3.2) Timeline include page, used in My View (my_view_page.php) and User Information (view_user_page.php) pages, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary code (if CSP settings permit it) through crafted PATH_INFO in a URL, due to use of unsanitized $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] to generate URLs.

Affected products

mantisbt: 2.3.0, 2.3.1

References

http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=22742
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038278
https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/a1c719313d61b07bbe8700005807b8195fdc32f1
https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/pull/1094
http://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=22742
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038278
https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/a1c719313d61b07bbe8700005807b8195fdc32f1
https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/pull/1094

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