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CVE-2026-33052: MantisBT: Authorization Bypass in Global Profile Creation

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v4.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-05-19 · updated 2026-07-24
• Weakness: CWE-639

Description

Mantis Bug Tracker (MantisBT) is an open source issue tracker. Versions 2.28.0 and 2.28.1 allow a low-privileged authenticated user assigned the "add_profile_threshold" permission to create a global profile despite not having manage_global_profile_threshold, by tampering with the user_id parameter in a valid profile creation request. This issue has been fixed in version 2.28.2.

Affected products

• mantisbt: from 2.28.0, < 2.28.2

References

• https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/3f952e68fa864e0e60abc3e84adecf3cfa84c75e
• https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/security/advisories/GHSA-68w5-w573-q2r8
• https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=36974
• https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=36974

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