GHSA-68w5-w573-q2r8
MantisBT Has Authorization Bypass in Global Profile Creation
Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Packagist | mantisbt/mantisbt | >= 2.28.0, < 2.28.2 | 2.28.2 |
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
MantisBT allows a low-privileged authenticated user having *add_profile_threshold* 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.
### Impact
Authentication bypass
### Patches
- 3f952e68fa864e0e60abc3e84adecf3cfa84c75e
### Workarounds
None
### Credits
Thanks to Vishal Shukla for discovering and responsibly reporting the issues.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/security/advisories/GHSA-68w5-w573-q2r8
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33052
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/3f952e68fa864e0e60abc3e84adecf3cfa84c75e
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt
- https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/releases/tag/release-2.28.2
- https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=36974