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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-2r4h-8jxv-w2j8 CKAN vulnerable to stored XSS in resource description
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History

Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:45:00 +0000

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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.
Title CKAN stored XSS vulnerability in Markdown description fields
Weaknesses CWE-79
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2025-10-29T17:41:12.571Z

Reserved: 2025-07-21T16:12:20.734Z

Link: CVE-2025-54384

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Updated: 2025-10-29T17:41:08.445Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-10-29T16:15:33.893

Modified: 2025-10-29T16:15:33.893

Link: CVE-2025-54384

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