Vulnerability Details CVE-2024-22417
Whoogle Search is a self-hosted metasearch engine. In versions 0.8.3 and prior, the `element` method in `app/routes.py` does not validate the user-controlled `src_type` and `element_url` variables and passes them to the `send` method which sends a `GET` request on lines 339-343 in `requests.py`. The returned contents of the URL are then passed to and reflected back to the user in the `send_file` function on line 484, together with the user-controlled `src_type`, which allows the attacker to control the HTTP response content type leading to a cross-site scripting vulnerability. An attacker could craft a special URL to point to a malicious website and send the link to a victim. The fact that the link would contain a trusted domain (e.g. from one of public Whoogle instances) could be used to trick the user into clicking the link. The malicious website could, for example, be a copy of a real website, meant to steal a person’s credentials to the website, or trick that person in another way. Version 0.8.4 contains a patch for this issue.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.004
EPSS Ranking 57.2%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 6.1
Products affected by CVE-2024-22417
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.5.2
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.5.3
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.5.4
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.7.2
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.7.3
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.7.4
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.8.0
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.8.2
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cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:0.8.3