GHSA-2r4h-8jxv-w2j8MediumCVSS 6.3

CKAN vulnerable to stored XSS in resource description

Published
October 29, 2025
Last Modified
October 29, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 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 products2

  • pip/ckan:>= 2.11.0, < 2.11.4
  • pip/ckan:< 2.10.9

🔗 References (7)