SNS Vulnerability

MantisBT "filter_config_id" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in MantisBT, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks.
Input passed via the "filter_config_id" parameter to adm_config_report.php is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.
Note: Reportedly, this vulnerability is caused due to an incomplete fix of CVE-2014-8986.
For more information see vulnerability #9 in:
SA62180
The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.2.19. Other versions may also be affected.

Vulnerable Products

Vulnerable Software:
MantisBT 1.x

Solution

Fixed in the source code repository.

CVE

CVE-2015-2046

References

MantisBT:
https://www.mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=19301
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/573

Vulnerability Manager Detection

IPS Protection

ASQ Engine alarm	Available Since
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'iframe' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'meta' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious tag with event found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'applet' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' attribute found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'img' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'a' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : cookie access attempt using script language found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'embed' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'object' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'form' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : javascript code found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : evasion attempt using tag characters encoding in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'style' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Phishing : suspicious 'link' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'script' tag found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : 'location' javascript object found in URL	3.2.0
XSS - Prevention - GET : suspicious 'div' tag found in URL	3.2.0

Risk level

Low

Vulnerability First Public Report Date

2015-02-17

Target Type

Server

Possible exploit

Remote