Whoogle Search Cross-site Scripting vulnerability

Exploitation

No confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next marks exploitation only from CISA KEV.

CVSS

6.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

EPSS

• CVE-2024-22417: 0.64% estimated exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 50.51 (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-03). This is a model estimate, not proof of exploitation or customer exposure.

As published by the source; long descriptions are shortened.

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 srctype and elementurl 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 sendfile function on line 484, together with the user-controlled srctype, 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…

Published by the source

14 Mar 2024, 20:37 UTC

Last modified by the source

14 Mar 2024, 20:56 UTC

Source last checked

26 Oct 2026, 13:12 UTC

1. Revision 2 · amended · 26 Oct 2026

   Amended from ghsa record GHSA-phg6-44m7-hx3h

2. Revision 1 · created · 24 Oct 2026

   Published from osv record GHSA-phg6-44m7-hx3h

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# Patch Next advisory brief: CVE-2024-22417

Advisory: Whoogle Search Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
IDs: CVE-2024-22417, GHSA-phg6-44m7-hx3h
Record: https://patchnext.com/advisories/cve-2024-22417 (revision 2, source checked 26 Oct 2026, 13:12 UTC)
Inventory: none attached. This brief comes from a public page and does not say whether any deployment is affected.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 6.1)
Exploitation: no confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next confirms exploitation only from CISA KEV.
Vendor response: Vendor fix available; fixed versions by package: whoogle-search 0.8.4. A vendor fix does not mean a deployment is fixed.

## Affected components
- PyPI whoogle-search: affected < 0.8.4; fixed in 0.8.4

## Suggested inspection (read-only)
- `python -m pip show whoogle-search`: prints the installed version. Run with the environment that serves production active.

## Supported action
Upgrade each affected component to a fixed version on its release line. For a transitive dependency, upgrade the parent package or add an override or constraint, then regenerate the lockfile. Redeploy every environment that ran an affected version.

## Required regression checks
- Run the test suite and a production build.
- Exercise the features that depend on whoogle-search.
- Repeat the inspection and confirm that only fixed versions remain installed.

## Rollback considerations
- Keep the previous lockfile and deployment artifact. Rolling back reinstates the vulnerable version, so apply any documented mitigation while you fix forward.

## Unresolved questions
- Which deployments run an affected version?
- Exploitation status can change. Check again before lowering the priority.
- Mark the work resolved only after the fixed version is verified in production.

## Sources
- Verified: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-phg6-44m7-hx3h (OSV record GHSA-phg6-44m7-hx3h lists affected ranges: PyPI whoogle-search >=0 <0.8.4 (fixed))
- Verified: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-phg6-44m7-hx3h (GitHub-reviewed advisory GHSA-phg6-44m7-hx3h lists affected ranges: PyPI whoogle-search >=0 <0.8.4)

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