CVE-2026-33052
EPSS 0.04%MantisBT Has Authorization Bypass in Global Profile Creation
Published: 5/11/2026Modified: 5/19/2026
Also known as:GHSA-68w5-w573-q2r8
Description
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Packagist/mantisbt/mantisbt>= 2.28.0, < 2.28.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
References (6)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33052
- PATCHhttps://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt
- WEBhttps://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/3f952e68fa864e0e60abc3e84adecf3cfa84c75e
- WEBhttps://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/releases/tag/release-2.28.2
- WEBhttps://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/security/advisories/GHSA-68w5-w573-q2r8
- WEBhttps://mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php?id=36974