CVE-2021-25967: CKAN - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via SVG File Upload

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-12-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

In CKAN, versions 2.9.0 to 2.9.3 are affected by a stored XSS vulnerability via SVG file upload of users’ profile picture. This allows low privileged application users to store malicious scripts in their profile picture. These scripts are executed in a victim’s browser when they open the malicious profile picture

Affected products

ckan: from 2.9.0 through 2.9.3

References

https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-25967
https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-25967

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