CVE-2025-54384
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Publication date: 2025-10-29

Last updated on: 2025-10-30

Assigner: GitHub, Inc.

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.
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Published
2025-10-29
Last Modified
2025-10-30
Generated
2026-06-16
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2025-10-29
EPSS Evaluated
2026-06-15
NVD
CVE-2025-54384
EUVD
EUVD-2025-36667
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CWE ID Description
CWE-79 The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.
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Executive Summary

This vulnerability is a cross-site scripting (XSS) issue in CKAN's helpers.markdown_extract() function, which did not properly sanitize user input before embedding it in HTML. This allows attackers to inject malicious scripts into pages that render user-provided data, potentially affecting dataset, resource, organization, group pages, or any extension pages using this helper.

Impact Analysis

The vulnerability can lead to the execution of malicious scripts in the context of users viewing affected pages, potentially compromising user data confidentiality (high impact), causing limited integrity issues, and requiring user interaction. This could result in unauthorized actions or data exposure within the CKAN data management system.

Mitigation Strategies

Upgrade CKAN to version 2.10.9 or 2.11.4 or later, as these versions contain the fix for the vulnerability in the helpers.markdown_extract() function that prevents insufficient sanitization leading to XSS.

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