Your website is vulnerable to being tricked into executing uploaded malcious code because the SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF setting is not set.

SecurityMiddleware sets the X-Content-Type-Options header to nosniff when SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF = True to prevent hackers from tricking your website into executing a malicious javascript file that they uploaded via one of your forms.

This header indicates to the browser that the MIME types advertised in the Content-Type headers should not be changed (by "sniffing" the content).

The sniffing feature is the browser being helpful when a developer or server misconfiguration misidentified the Content-Type. If the browser respected an incorrect MIME type then a javascript, css, or image file would not work and the website would break. Very helpful feature. But it can be abused:

• A bad actor uploads HTML containing javascript (maybe pretending to be an image file).
• The file is served by your website but does not set MIME type in the Content-Type header
• The browser infers the MIME type based on the content
• The browser executes the javascript

By setting SECURE_CONTENT_TYPE_NOSNIFF = True, the browser will not infer the MIME type if the Content-Type is not set, closing this security hole.