CVE-2008-4930 (GCVE-0-2008-4930)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-11-04 20:00
Modified
2024-09-16 23:10
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
MyBB (aka MyBulletinBoard) 1.4.2 does not properly handle an uploaded file with a nonstandard file type that contains HTML sequences, which allows remote attackers to cause that file to be processed as HTML by Internet Explorer's content inspection, aka "Incomplete protection against MIME-sniffing." NOTE: this could be leveraged for XSS and other attacks.
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