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CVE-2008-4930

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2008-11-04 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Mybb Mybb

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References