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title: "CVE-2024-22203: Whoogle Search Path Traversal vulnerability"
url: https://erroneo.us/security/cve/CVE-2024-22203/
description: "CVE-2024-22203 (whoogle-search (PyPI)): Whoogle Search is a self-hosted metasearch engine. In versions prior to 0.8.4, the element method in app/routes.py…"
type: vulnerability-record
section: "Security Digest"
date_published: 2024-01-23
date_modified: 2024-11-13
publisher: erroneo.us
author: erroneo.us Security Desk
cve: "CVE-2024-22203"
kev: false
cvss: 9.1
epss: 0.01011
license: All rights reserved. Quote with attribution and a link.
---

# CVE-2024-22203: Whoogle Search Path Traversal vulnerability

**Signal:** Critical and remotely reachable. No known exploitation yet, but it is network-reachable without credentials. (Computed from CISA KEV, EPSS and CVSS; not an editorial verdict.)

## Should you act?

- Not in CISA KEV , but CISA’s SSVC assessment records a public proof-of-concept, so attack code exists.
- EPSS 1.0% , percentile 63: FIRST’s model estimates a 1.0% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, higher than 63% of all scored CVEs (moderate). EPSS is a probability, not a verdict.
- Remotely reachable with no login and no user interaction. If the vulnerable service is exposed to the internet, prioritize it.
- Only applies if your dependency tree includes whoogle-search (PyPI) >= 0, < 0.8.4, fixed in 0.8.4 . Check your lockfile, including transitive dependencies.

## What it is

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 srctype and elementurl 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.

## Affected packages

- PyPI `whoogle-search` >= 0, < 0.8.4 → fixed: 0.8.4

## Affected products (CVE record)

- benbusby whoogle-search: < 0.8.4

## Severity

- GitHub_M CVSS 3.1: 9.1 `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N`
- GitHub CVSS 3.1: 9.1 `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N`

## Exploitation

- CISA KEV: not listed (no confirmed in-the-wild exploitation known to CISA).
- CISA SSVC assessment: exploitation poc , automatable yes , technical impact total .
- FIRST EPSS (model of 2026-10-21): 1.01% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 63.

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory GHSA-q97g-c29h-x2p7](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q97g-c29h-x2p7)
- [CVE.org record CVE-2024-22203](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-22203)
- [NVD entry CVE-2024-22203](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22203)
- [securitylab.github.com](https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2023-186_GHSL-2023-189_benbusby_whoogle-search/)
- [github.com](https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/commit/3a2e0b262e4a076a20416b45e6b6f23fd265aeda)
- [github.com](https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/request.py#L339-L343)
- [github.com](https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/routes.py#L465-L490)
- [github.com](https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/routes.py#L466)
- [github.com](https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/routes.py#L476)
- [github.com](https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search/blob/92e8ede24e9277a5440d403f75877209f1269884/app/routes.py#L479)
- [github.com](https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/whoogle-search/PYSEC-2024-20.yaml)

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