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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2024-01-23T17:21:59.937Z

Updated: 2024-08-01T22:43:34.841Z

Reserved: 2024-01-10T15:09:55.552Z

Link: CVE-2024-22417

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-01-23T18:15:18.860

Modified: 2024-02-15T03:17:08.090

Link: CVE-2024-22417

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