Vulnerability · Published Jul 12, 2022 · Assigned by snyk

CVE-2022-25303Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Medium 5.4

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in whoogle-search. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.0% (higher than 62% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.4Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)1.0%top 38.0% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
PyPI	whoogle-search	0.7.2	GHSA-mxvc-fwgx-j778
PyPI	whoogle-search	0.7.2	PYSEC-2022-226

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	whoogle-search	unspecified – before 0.7.2

References

https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-WHOOGLESEARCH-2803306 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/6d362ca5c7a00d2f691a2512461c5dfbfc01cbb3/app/routes.py%23L448 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/commit/abc30d7da3b5c67be7ce84d4699f327442d44606 x_refsource_MISC