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CVE-2026-111089: Apache Wicket: XSS via a resource bundle text written unescaped into generated JavaScript and markup

HighCVSS 7.6 · v4.0—No exploit Fix available

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 30/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.33% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Apache Software Foundation Apache Wicket 8.20.0.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Apache Software Foundation Apache Wicket 8.20.0 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Apache Wicket reads texts from the application's resource bundles — a localized label, a css class name — and writes some of them into the JavaScript and the markup it generates for a component. Those texts are placed inside single-quoted JavaScript string literals and inside quoted attribute values without being escaped for that context, so a text containing a quote ends the literal or the attribute, and what follows is parsed as script or as markup in the application's origin when the page loads. A resource bundle entry is authored for the application and does not say where the framework will write it. The same key is read by the framework into element text, where Wicket escapes it, and into the contexts below, where it did not. A text containing an apostrophe, which is ordinary in several languages, is enough to break the page; a text under the influence of another party is enough to run script. In org.apache.wicket:wicket-core, org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.upload.MultiFileUploadField writes the org.apache.wicket.mfu.delete message into a JavaScript string literal, and org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.Form writes the hidden-fields css class into the class attribute of the container it renders for its hidden fields; on 8.0.0 through 8.19.0 and 9.0.0 through 9.24.0 Form#appendDefaultButtonField writes the same css class into a second container. In org.apache.wicket:wicket-extensions, UploadProgressBar writes its UploadProgressBar.starting text into a JavaScript string literal, FilterForm writes the hidden-fields css class into the class attribute of its hidden input markup, and on 9.0.0 through 9.24.0 and 10.0.0 through 10.11.0 TrapFocusBehavior writes its current css class into a JavaScript string literal. The Content-Security-Policy that Apache Wicket 9.x and 10.x send by default does not prevent the JavaScript cases: the generated script is written into a script element carrying the per-response nonce, so the injected code is part of a script the policy admits. It does prevent an inline event handler injected through the attribute cases. This issue affects Apache Wicket: from 8.0.0 through 8.19.0, from 9.0.0 through 9.24.0, from 10.0.0 through 10.11.0. Users of Apache Wicket 7.x or older, which are no longer supported, should upgrade to a supported version. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 8.20.0, 9.25.0 or 10.12.0, which fix the issue.

Published
Nov 1, 2026
Updated
Nov 6, 2026
EPSS
0.3% · 26th percentile

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Action score

30

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
30 / 40 · 7.6 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.3%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total

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CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · apache
7.6
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (apache). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Wicket

    • 8.0.0 and later · up to and including 8.19.0affected · semver
    • 9.0.0 and later · up to and including 9.24.0affected · semver
    • 10.0.0 and later · up to and including 10.11.0affected · semver

Same product

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Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2026-84170Apache Wicket: Configured upload limits are not enforced by the standalone file upload resource
    33Monitor
  • CVE-2026-83594Apache Wicket: FileUploadToResourceField accepts a client-asserted upload result and allocates the size it names
    33Monitor
  • CVE-2026-95863Apache Wicket: XSS via a component id or markup id written unescaped into generated JavaScript and markup
    30Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-82840Nov 1, 2026 · Apache Wicket: The session id is renewed only on the first sign in, not on re-authentication
    28Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-82898Nov 1, 2026 · Apache Wicket: A cross-origin listener invocation stopped by a login wall is replayed after the user signs in
    8Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-82956Nov 1, 2026 · Apache Wicket: XSS in AjaxNewWindowNotifyingBehavior via the client-supplied window name
    30Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Apache Software Foundation Apache Wicket8.20.0 · descriptionVendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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  1. Published
  2. Fix recordedsame day
  3. TodayNov 13, 2026+12 d
EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2026-829560 days apartApache Wicket: XSS in AjaxNewWindowNotifyingBehavior via the client-supplied window name
    30Monitor
  • CVE-2026-958630 days apartApache Wicket: XSS via a component id or markup id written unescaped into generated JavaScript and markup
    30Monitor
  • CVE-2026-835390 days apartApache Wicket: XSS in SmartLinkLabel and SmartLinkMultiLineLabel via a javascript: URL in the model data
    29Monitor
  • CVE-2026-842310 days apartApache Wicket: XSS in ExternalLink via the model URL when the component is bound to a non-anchor tag
    29Monitor

Not on record for this CVE: patch commit or PR link · public bounty program.

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
P
Scope
X

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

nvd-secondary

Root cause

User content is inserted into the page as HTML. The browser interprets the content as code rather than data.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-79 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

ts
commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;

Fixed

ts
commentEl.textContent = comment.body;

Attack context

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ATT&CK techniques

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Change log

  1. SSVC exploitation— → none
  2. Exploit maturity— → none
  3. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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