MantisBT Has Authorization Bypass in Global Profile Creation — CVE-2026-33052

Summary

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…

Product

composer: mantisbt/mantisbt

What to do

General, cautious steps (verify details in the official source):

• Review exposure and plan remediation based on risk and environment.
• Identify affected product versions in your inventory and verify whether you are impacted.
• Apply vendor patches/updates or recommended mitigations as soon as available.
• Read the official advisory for exact affected versions and remediation steps.

Official advisory

• Read the official source
• CVE Record
• NVD

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