CVE-2012-5523: Mantisbt

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

core/email_api.php in MantisBT before 1.2.12 does not properly manage the sending of e-mail notifications about restricted bugs, which might allow remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by adding a note to a bug before losing permission to view that bug.

Affected products

• Mantisbt Mantisbt: up to and including 1.2.11; version 0.18.0 only; version 0.19.0 only; version 0.19.1 only; version 0.19.2 only; version 0.19.3 only; …

Published 2012-11-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.