Medium
Security advisory
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
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-25967
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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
osv:CVE-2021-25967
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:28.828315101Z",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2021-12-01T14:15:07.737+00:00"
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