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TITLE:
Mantis Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA30270

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/30270/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Mantis 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/5571/

DESCRIPTION:
thraxisp has reported a vulnerability in Mantis, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery
attacks.

The vulnerability is caused due to the application allowing users to
perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing any
validity checks to verify the request. This can be exploited to e.g.
add a new user with administrative privileges by enticing a logged-in
administrator to visit a malicious site.

The vulnerability is reported in version 1.1.1. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
The vendor has provided alpha release 1.2.0a1.
http://www.mantisbt.org/download.php

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
thraxisp

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=595025&group_id=14963

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