CVE-2014-2238

medium

Published 2014-03-05 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in the manage configuration page (adm_config_report.php) in MantisBT 1.2.13 through 1.2.16 allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the filter_config_id parameter.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_gather/mantisbt_admin_sqli rank 300

MantisBT Admin SQL Injection Arbitrary File Read

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
mantisbt	mantisbt	`1.2.13`
mantisbt	mantisbt	`1.2.14`
mantisbt	mantisbt	`1.2.15`
mantisbt	mantisbt	`1.2.16`

References

CWEs

CWE-89

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.