Description
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.
Published: 2008-11-04
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2008-4909 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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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T23:10:27.783Z

Reserved: 2008-11-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-4930

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Status : Modified

Published: 2008-11-04T21:00:05.987

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-4930

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