Access Control Bypass Affecting mantisbt/mantisbt package, versions <2.28.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.43% (34th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-MANTISBTMANTISBT-16642115
  • published12 May 2026
  • disclosed11 May 2026
  • creditdracosectech-code, shukla304

Introduced: 11 May 2026

CVE-2026-34390  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mantisbt/mantisbt to version 2.28.2 or higher.

Overview

mantisbt/mantisbt is a mantis bug tracker.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Control Bypass via insufficient access control checks in the ProjectUsersAddCommand process. An attacker can escalate their project-level privileges by submitting a forged higher access_level value through the backend handler.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1