MEDIUM

GHSA-68w5-w573-q2r8

MantisBT Has Authorization Bypass in Global Profile Creation

Quick fix

GHSA-68w5-w573-q2r8 — mantisbt/mantisbt: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

composer require mantisbt/mantisbt:^2.28.2

Details

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.

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Affected packages

Packagist/mantisbt/mantisbt

Introduced in: 2.28.0Fixed in: 2.28.2

Fixcomposer require mantisbt/mantisbt:^2.28.2

References

https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/security/advisories/GHSA-68w5-w573-q2r8[WEB]
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33052[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/3f952e68fa864e0e60abc3e84adecf3cfa84c75e[WEB]
https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/releases/tag/release-2.28.2[WEB]
https://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=36974[WEB]