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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2025-54384 EUVD-2025-36667GHSA-2r4h-8jxv-w2j8PYSEC-2026-1247

CKAN stored XSS vulnerability in Markdown description fields

Published Oct 29, 2025 · Updated Oct 29, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. Prior to 2.10.9 and 2.11.4, 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. This vulnerability has been fixed in CKAN 2.10.9 and 2.11.4.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ckan ckan >= 2.11.0, < 2.11.4, < 2.10.9 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI ckan >= 2.11.0, < 2.11.4 2.11.4 GHSA-2r4h-8jxv-w2j8
PyPI ckan < 2.10.9 2.10.9 GHSA-2r4h-8jxv-w2j8
PyPI ckan < 2.10.9 · >= 2.11.0, < 2.11.4 2.10.9, 2.11.4 PYSEC-2026-1247

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