Cross-site Scripting Affecting whoogle-search package, versions [,0.8.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-WHOOGLESEARCH-6186513
  • published25 Jan 2024
  • disclosed23 Jan 2024
  • credit@sylwia-budzynska

Introduced: 23 Jan 2024

CVE-2024-22417  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade whoogle-search to version 0.8.4 or higher.

Overview

whoogle-search is a Self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting via the element method, which does not properly validate user-controlled src_type and element_url variables. An attacker can manipulate the HTTP response content type and inject malicious scripts.

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