diff --git a/fineract-provider/src/main/java/org/apache/fineract/infrastructure/core/exception/ImageUploadException.java b/fineract-provider/src/main/java/org/apache/fineract/infrastructure/core/exception/ImageUploadException.java
index f28847d4b..3fec6bc1a 100644
--- a/fineract-provider/src/main/java/org/apache/fineract/infrastructure/core/exception/ImageUploadException.java
+++ b/fineract-provider/src/main/java/org/apache/fineract/infrastructure/core/exception/ImageUploadException.java
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ package org.apache.fineract.infrastructure.core.exception;
 
 public class ImageUploadException extends AbstractPlatformDomainRuleException {
 
-    public ImageUploadException() {
-        super("error.msg.image.type.upload", "Only image files of type GIF,PNG and JPG are allowed ");
+    public ImageUploadException(String badMimeType) {
+        super("error.msg.image.type.upload", "Only image files of type GIF,PNG and JPG are allowed, but not: " + badMimeType);
     }
 }
diff --git a/fineract-provider/src/main/java/org/apache/fineract/infrastructure/documentmanagement/contentrepository/ContentRepositoryUtils.java b/fineract-provider/src/main/java/org/apache/fineract/infrastructure/documentmanagement/contentrepository/ContentRepositoryUtils.java
index cd61dc84b..b50d39134 100644
--- a/fineract-provider/src/main/java/org/apache/fineract/infrastructure/documentmanagement/contentrepository/ContentRepositoryUtils.java
+++ b/fineract-provider/src/main/java/org/apache/fineract/infrastructure/documentmanagement/contentrepository/ContentRepositoryUtils.java
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ public final class ContentRepositoryUtils {
     public static void validateImageMimeType(final String mimeType) {
         if (!(mimeType.equalsIgnoreCase(ImageMIMEtype.GIF.getValue()) || mimeType.equalsIgnoreCase(ImageMIMEtype.JPEG.getValue())
                 || mimeType.equalsIgnoreCase(ImageMIMEtype.PNG.getValue()))) {
-            throw new ImageUploadException();
+            throw new ImageUploadException(mimeType);
         }
     }