whoogle-search up to 0.7.1 HTML Template error.html q HTML injection

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in whoogle-search up to 0.7.1. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file error.html of the component HTML Template Handler. This manipulation of the argument q causes HTML injection. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-25303. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in whoogle-search up to 0.7.1 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the file error.html of the component HTML Template Handler. The manipulation of the argument q with an unknown input leads to a html injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The package whoogle-search before 0.7.2 are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) via the query string parameter q. In the case where it does not contain the http string, it is used to build the error_message that is then rendered in the error.html template, using the [flask.render_template](https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.1.x/api/flask.render_template) function. However, the error_message is rendered using the [| safe filter](https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.1.x/templates/working-with-automatic-escaping), meaning the user input is not escaped.

The weakness was shared 07/13/2022 as abc30d7da3b5c67be7ce84d4699f327442d44606. The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2022-25303 since 02/24/2022. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are known, but no exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059.007 for this issue.

By approaching the search of inurl:error.html it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 0.7.2 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch abc30d7da3b5c67be7ce84d4699f327442d44606 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• whoogle-search

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• 0.7.0
• 0.7.1

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• open-source

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