Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password Affecting mantisbt/mantisbt package, versions >=1.3.0-rc.2, <1.3.10>=2.0.0, <2.2.4>=2.3.0, <2.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
92.74% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-MANTISBTMANTISBT-9789614
  • published23 Apr 2025
  • disclosed13 May 2022
  • creditJohn Page

Introduced: 13 May 2022

CVE-2017-7615  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-640  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mantisbt/mantisbt to version 1.3.10, 2.2.4, 2.3.1 or higher.

Overview

mantisbt/mantisbt is a mantis bug tracker.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password via an empty confirm_hash value to verify.php.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1