CVE-2025-54384
MEDIUM6.3EPSS 0.03%CKAN vulnerable to stored XSS in resource description
Published: 10/29/2025Modified: 10/29/2025
Also known as:GHSA-2r4h-8jxv-w2j8
Description
### 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 (1)
- PyPI/ckan>= 2.11.0, < 2.11.4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N |
References (7)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54384
- PATCHhttps://github.com/ckan/ckan
- WEBhttps://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/112affffa74b14fc97c54abcf18315df97114917
- WEBhttps://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/6d0065f2fc7e2682196d125275af34b93e9e554e
- WEBhttps://github.com/ckan/ckan/releases/tag/ckan-2.10.9
- WEBhttps://github.com/ckan/ckan/releases/tag/ckan-2.11.4
- WEBhttps://github.com/ckan/ckan/security/advisories/GHSA-2r4h-8jxv-w2j8