Missing X-Content-Type-Options Header
Invicti detected a missing X-Content-Type-Options header which means that this website could be at risk of a MIME-sniffing attacks.
MIME type sniffing is a standard functionality in browsers to find an appropriate way to render data where the HTTP headers sent by the server are either inconclusive or missing.
This allows web browsers such as Google Chrome to perform MIME-Sniffing on the response body, potentially causing the response body to be interpreted and displayed as a content type other than the intended content type.
The problem arises once a website allows users to upload content which is then published on the web server. If an attacker can carry out XSS (Cross-site Scripting) attack by manipulating the content in a way to be accepted by the web application and rendered as HTML by the browser, it is possible to inject code in e.g. an image file and make the victim execute it by viewing the image.
Add the X-Content-Type-Options header with a value of "nosniff" to inform the browser to trust what the site has sent is the appropriate content-type, and to not attempt "sniffing" the real content-type.
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
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