[mod] limiter: trusted proxies (#4911)

Replaces `x_for` functionality with `trusted_proxies`. This allows defining
which IP / ranges to trust extracting the client IP address from X-Forwarded-For
and X-Real-IP headers.

We don't know if the proxy chain will give us the proper client
address (REMOTE_ADDR in the WSGI environment), so we rely on reading the headers
of the proxy before SearXNG (if there is one, in that case it must be added to
trusted_proxies) hoping it has done the proper checks. In case a proxy in the
chain does not check the client address correctly, integrity is compromised and
this should be fixed by whoever manages the proxy, not us.

Closes:

- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/4940
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/4939
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/4907
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/3632
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/3191
- https://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/1237

Related:

- https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker/issues/386
- https://github.com/inetol-infrastructure/searxng-container/issues/81
This commit is contained in:
Ivan Gabaldon
2025-08-09 23:03:30 +02:00
committed by GitHub
parent 341d718c7f
commit ce8929cabe
24 changed files with 453 additions and 184 deletions
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@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@ from __future__ import annotations
import typing
import re
from ipaddress import ip_address
from flask_babel import gettext
from searx.botdetection._helpers import get_real_ip
from searx.result_types import EngineResults
from . import Plugin, PluginInfo
@@ -48,8 +49,10 @@ class SXNGPlugin(Plugin):
if search.search_query.pageno > 1:
return results
if self.ip_regex.search(search.search_query.query):
results.add(results.types.Answer(answer=gettext("Your IP is: ") + get_real_ip(request)))
if self.ip_regex.search(search.search_query.query) and request.remote_addr:
results.add(
results.types.Answer(answer=gettext("Your IP is: ") + ip_address(request.remote_addr).compressed)
)
if self.ua_regex.match(search.search_query.query):
results.add(results.types.Answer(answer=gettext("Your user-agent is: ") + str(request.user_agent)))
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@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ user searches for ``tor-check``. It fetches the tor exit node list from
user's IP address is in it.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
from ipaddress import ip_address
import typing
import re
@@ -14,7 +15,6 @@ from httpx import HTTPError
from searx.network import get
from searx.plugins import Plugin, PluginInfo
from searx.result_types import EngineResults
from searx.botdetection import get_real_ip
if typing.TYPE_CHECKING:
from searx.search import SearchWithPlugins
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ class SXNGPlugin(Plugin):
results.add(results.types.Answer(answer=f"{msg} {url_exit_list}"))
return results
real_ip = get_real_ip(request)
real_ip = ip_address(address=str(request.remote_addr)).compressed
if real_ip in node_list:
msg = gettext("You are using Tor and it looks like you have the external IP address")