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MyBB Improper Input Validation Vulnerability - CVE-2008-4930 - Vulnerability Database
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MyBB Improper Input Validation Vulnerability - CVE-2008-4930

Medium
Reference: CVE-2008-4930
NVD Link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4930
Title: MyBB Improper Input Validation Vulnerability
Overview:

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 Explorer39s content inspection aka quotIncomplete protection against MIME-sniffing.quot NOTE: this could be leveraged for XSS and other attacks.