id: PYSEC-2024-19
modified: 2024-01-29T22:21:01.226431Z
published: 2024-01-23T18:15:00Z
aliases:
- CVE-2024-22417
- GHSA-phg6-44m7-hx3h
details: 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.
affected:
- package:
    ecosystem: PyPI
    name: whoogle-search
    purl: pkg:pypi/whoogle-search
  ranges:
  - type: GIT
    events:
    - introduced: "0"
    - fixed: 3a2e0b262e4a076a20416b45e6b6f23fd265aeda
    repo: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search
  - type: ECOSYSTEM
    events:
    - introduced: "0"
    - fixed: 0.8.4
  versions:
  - 0.1.0
  - 0.1.3
  - 0.1.4
  - 0.2.0
  - 0.2.1
  - 0.3.0
  - 0.3.1
  - 0.3.2
  - 0.4.0
  - 0.4.1
  - 0.5.0
  - 0.5.1
  - 0.5.2
  - 0.5.3
  - 0.5.4
  - 0.6.0
  - 0.7.0
  - 0.7.1
  - 0.7.2
  - 0.7.3
  - 0.7.4
  - 0.8.0
  - 0.8.1
  - 0.8.2
  - 0.8.3
severity:
- type: CVSS_V3
  score: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
references:
- type: EVIDENCE
  url: 
    https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-186_GHSL-2023-189_benbusby_whoogle-search/
- type: ADVISORY
  url: 
    https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-186_GHSL-2023-189_benbusby_whoogle-search/
- type: FIX
  url: 
    https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/commit/3a2e0b262e4a076a20416b45e6b6f23fd265aeda
- type: WEB
  url: 
    https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/request.py#L339-L343
- type: WEB
  url: 
    https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/routes.py#L465-L490
- type: WEB
  url: 
    https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/routes.py#L466
- type: WEB
  url: 
    https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/routes.py#L476
- type: WEB
  url: 
    https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/routes.py#L479
- type: WEB
  url: 
    https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/routes.py#L484C6-L484C7
- type: ADVISORY
  url: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-phg6-44m7-hx3h