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Medium · 5.4 CVE-2021-25967 EUVD-2021-0042GHSA-6w9p-88qg-p3g3PYSEC-2021-841

CKAN - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via SVG File Upload

Published Dec 1, 2021 · Updated Apr 30, 2025 · Assigned by Mend

Description

In CKAN, versions 2.9.0 to 2.9.3 are affected by a stored XSS vulnerability via SVG file upload of users’ profile picture. This allows low privileged application users to store malicious scripts in their profile picture. These scripts are executed in a victim’s browser when they open the malicious profile picture

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ckan ckan 2.9.0 – < unspecified, unspecified – ≤ 2.9.3 unspecified

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI ckan >= 2.9.0, < 2.10.0 2.10.0 GHSA-6w9p-88qg-p3g3
PyPI ckan >= 2.9.0, < 2.9.4 2.9.4 PYSEC-2021-841

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