Medium severity · published Aug 9, 2017
CVE-2014-9701
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MantisBT before 1.2.19 and 1.3.x before 1.3.0-beta.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the url…
6.5
CVSS
2.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MantisBT before 1.2.19 and 1.3.x before 1.3.0-beta.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the url parameter to permalink_page.php.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.3% · higher than 83% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MA
Mantisbt · Mantisbt
through 1.2.18; 1.3.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9701
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9701
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/15/2
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202885
Patch
https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/d95f070db852614fa18ccca6a4f12f4bffede1fd
Patch
https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/e7e2b5503580e42db9d91e0d599d61d3ff03c27e
Vendor Advisory
https://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=17362#c40613
Vendor Advisory
https://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=19493
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