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Whoogle Search Cross-site Scripting via string parameter

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jul 15, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 17, 2023

Package

pip whoogle-search (pip)

Affected versions

< 0.7.2

Patched versions

0.7.2

Description

The package whoogle-search before version 0.7.2 is 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 function. However, the error_message is rendered using the | safe filter, meaning the user input is not escaped.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 12, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 15, 2022
Reviewed Jul 15, 2022
Last updated Aug 17, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS score

0.071%
(33rd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-25303

GHSA ID

GHSA-mxvc-fwgx-j778

Source code

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