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

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-07-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

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 products

• whoogle-search: before 0.7.2 — fixed in 0.7.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: whoogle-search 0.7.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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

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