TI-2024-14796 Aliases CVE-2024-22203 GHSA-q97g-c29h-x2p7

Whoogle Search Server Side Request Forgery vulnerability

HIGH 82CWE-918Published 2024-01-23 · Updated 2024-11-13

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: —
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · High · High
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

Whoogle Search is a self-hosted metasearch engine. In versions prior to 0.8.4, 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 `request.py`, which leads to a server-side request forgery. This issue allows for crafting GET requests to internal and external resources on behalf of the server. For example, this issue would allow for accessing resources on the internal network that the server has access to, even though these resources may not be accessible on the internet. This issue is fixed in version 0.8.4.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.01003 63rd percentileScored 2026-11-07

Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD

Fix Fixed whoogle-search (benbusby): 0.8.4whoogle-search (PyPI): 0.8.4

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: Poc
Automatable: Yes
Technical impact: Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
benbusby	whoogle-search	before 0.8.4	0.8.4	Patch available	CNA
—	whoogle-search (PyPI)	before 0.8.4	0.8.4	Patch available	GHSA-q97g-c29h-x2p7

whoogle-search Vendorbenbusby Affected before 0.8.4 Fixed in 0.8.4 Patch available CNA
whoogle-search (PyPI) Vendor— Affected before 0.8.4 Fixed in 0.8.4 Patch available GHSA-q97g-c29h-x2p7

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search::::::::	before 0.8.4	Vulnerable	benbusby

cpe:2.3:a:benbusby:whoogle_search:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 0.8.4 Vulnerable ·benbusby

Remediation

Fix · CNA whoogle-search (benbusby) Fixed in 0.8.4
Fix · GHSA-q97g-c29h-x2p7 whoogle-search (PyPI) Fixed in 0.8.4 Advisory →

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-22203
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-q97g-c29h-x2p7

References

Exploit 1

https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-186_GHSL-2023-189_benbusby_whoogle-search/

Patch 1

https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/commit/3a2e0b262e4a076a20416b45e6b6f23fd265aeda

Advisory 2

Other 7

TI-2024-14990 Whoogle Search Cross-site Scripting vulnerability CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.1
TI-2024-14797 Whoogle Search Limited File Write vulnerability CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3
TI-2024-14798 Whoogle Search Server Side Request Forgery vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2024-35761 An issue in the component /models/config.py of Whoogle search v0.9.0 allows attackers to… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3

Sources

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