What is CVE-2016-6837?

CVE-2016-6837 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mantisbt, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-01-10.

How severe is CVE-2016-6837?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Mantisbt

CVE-2016-6837

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in MantisBT Filter API in MantisBT versions before 1.2.19, and versions 2.0.0-beta1, 1.3.0-beta1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 'view_type' parameter.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2017-01-10 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.037 (89.4th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 89.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.037 · newest: 0.037 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Mantisbt — versions 1.3.0, 2.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/commit/7086c2d8b4b20ac14013b36761ac04f0abf21a4e (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
mantisbt.org/bugs/view.php (Vendor Advisory)
www.securitytracker.com/id/1036655 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/92522 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-6837?: CVE-2016-6837 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mantisbt, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-01-10.
How severe is CVE-2016-6837?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.