CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-4930

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2008-11-04 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-11-04
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20

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.

Affected configurations

• mybb mybb 1.4.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References