Whoogle Search Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-22417",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Whoogle Search Cross-site Scripting vulnerability",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2024-22417",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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      "id": "CVE-2024-22417",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2024-22417",
        "GHSA-phg6-44m7-hx3h",
        "PYSEC-2024-19"
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          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
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              "repo": "https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search",
              "type": "GIT",
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                  "fixed": "b97f3dd4c063d5bc35fcdc8fde299c721ec56594"
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                  "fixed": "3a2e0b262e4a076a20416b45e6b6f23fd265aeda"
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                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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                        "fixed": "0.8.4"
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          "versions": [
            "v0.8.3",
            "v0.8.2",
            "v0.8.1",
            "v0.8.0",
            "v0.7.4",
            "v0.7.3",
            "v0.7.2",
            "v0.7.1",
            "v0.7.0",
            "v0.6.0",
            "v0.5.4",
            "v0.5.3",
            "v0.5.2",
            "v0.5.1",
            "v0.5.0",
            "v0.4.1",
            "v0.4.0",
            "v0.3.2",
            "v0.3.1",
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            "v0.1.4",
            "v0.1.3",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:49.884425891Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/request.py#L339-L343",
        "https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/routes.py#L465-L490",
        "https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/routes.py#L466",
        "https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/routes.py#L476",
        "https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/routes.py#L479",
        "https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/routes.py#L484C6-L484C7",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/22xxx/CVE-2024-22417.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22417",
        "https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-186_GHSL-2023-189_benbusby_whoogle-search/",
        "https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/commit/3a2e0b262e4a076a20416b45e6b6f23fd265aeda"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 518279,
  "published_at": "2024-01-23T17:21:59.937+00:00"
}