benbusby whoogle-search up to 0.8.3 app/routes.py element src_type/element_url cross site scripting

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in benbusby whoogle-search up to 0.8.3. This vulnerability affects the function element of the file app/routes.py. Such manipulation of the argument src_type/element_url leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2024-22417. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

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A vulnerability was found in benbusby whoogle-search up to 0.8.3 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function element of the file app/routes.py. The manipulation of the argument src_type/element_url with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was published 01/23/2024 as GHSL-2023-186. The advisory is available at securitylab.github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-22417 since 01/10/2024. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059.007 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 0.8.4 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 3a2e0b262e4a076a20416b45e6b6f23fd265aeda 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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• benbusby

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• whoogle-search

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• 0.8.0
• 0.8.1
• 0.8.2
• 0.8.3

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• open-source

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• Product: https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/

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