MIME Sniffing Understanding the Risks and Best Practices

MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Sniffing, a seemingly innocuous feature designed to improve user experience on the web, has evolved into a significant security concern. While originally intended to interpret the correct content type of a resource, MIME Sniffing has been exploited by attackers to execute various types of attacks, including Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and Cross-Site…