medium6.3
CVE-2025-54384
CKAN vulnerable to stored XSS in resource description
Impact
### Impact The `helpers.markdown_extract()` function did not perform sufficient sanitization of input data before wrapping in an HTML literal element. This helper is used to render user-provided data on dataset, resource, organization or group pages (plus any page provided by an extension that used that helper function), leading to a potential XSS vector. ### Patches This vulnerability has been fixed in CKAN 2.10.9 and 2.11.4
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| pip | ckan | >= 2.11.0, < 2.11.4 | 2.11.4 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- GitHub advisory
- https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/6d0065f2fc7e2682196d125275af34b93e9e554e
- https://github.com/ckan/ckan/security/advisories/GHSA-2r4h-8jxv-w2j8
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2r4h-8jxv-w2j8
- https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/112affffa74b14fc97c54abcf18315df97114917
- https://github.com/ckan/ckan/releases/tag/ckan-2.10.9
- https://github.com/ckan/ckan/releases/tag/ckan-2.11.4
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54384