GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-2r4h-8jxv-w2j8 CKAN vulnerable to stored XSS in resource description
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-54384
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- ckan
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
- Reviewed
- 2025-10-29
Affected packages
• PyPI ckan: >= 2.11.0, < 2.11.4 → fixed in 2.11.4
• PyPI ckan: < 2.10.9 → fixed in 2.10.9
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
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-54384 CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://github.com/ckan/ckan/security/advisories/GHSA-2r4h-8jxv-w2j8 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54384 advisory
- https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/112affffa74b14fc97c54abcf18315df97114917 web
- https://github.com/ckan/ckan/commit/6d0065f2fc7e2682196d125275af34b93e9e554e web
- https://github.com/ckan/ckan package
- https://github.com/ckan/ckan/releases/tag/ckan-2.10.9 web
- https://github.com/ckan/ckan/releases/tag/ckan-2.11.4 web