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VulnerabilityCVE-2026-82956

Improper neutralization of input during web page generation in Apache Wicket.

Improper neutralization of input during web page generation in Apache Wicket. org.apache.wicket.ajax.AjaxNewWindowNotifyingBehavior notices that a page instance has been opened in a second browser window or tab. It asks the browser for the value of window.

At a glance

Exploited
Not known
Severity
7.6 High (CVSS 4.0)
Chance of exploitation
Not estimated
Sources
1 source

What to do

Check the vendor advisory for affected versions and fixes.

Read NVD CVE-2026-82956 (opens a new tab)

What happened

Improper neutralization of input during web page generation in Apache Wicket.

org.apache.wicket.ajax.AjaxNewWindowNotifyingBehavior notices that a page instance has been opened in a second browser window or tab. It asks the browser for the value of window.name, which reaches the server as the request parameter windowName, and remembers what the browser reported in a field of the behaviour. That field is part of the page's serialized state, so the remembered value stays in the page store for as long as the page instance does.

On every later render of that page instance the behaviour builds the precondition of its Ajax call by substituting the remembered value into a single-quoted JavaScript string literal, and Wicket writes that precondition into the page as raw JavaScript, because the precondition of an Ajax call listener is script supplied by the caller and is emitted without quoting or escaping. Nothing on that path escapes the value.

The window name is client-supplied and Wicket applies no validation to it, so a remembered name containing a single quote ends the literal and the rest of it runs as script in the application's origin, every time that page instance is rendered.

Continue reading

An application is affected only where it has explicitly added AjaxNewWindowNotifyingBehavior to a component. No part of the framework installs the behaviour, so an application that does not use it is not affected. The name the behaviour generates for itself, when the browser reports no name at all, is a random UUID and is not client-supplied.

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 are recommended to upgrade to version 8.20.0, 9.25.0 or 10.12.0, which fix the issue.

Scores and how they were measured

CVSS base severity

7.6

Version 4.0As of

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

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How bad it is if exploited. Not a prediction of exploitation or proof you are exposed.

EPSS probability

Not available

A model's estimate of exploitation in the next 30 days, not certainty or your own risk.

Sources

  1. Primary source

    NVD CVE-2026-82956 (opens a new tab)

    NVD record: description, CVSS (the CNA score is preferred), affected products, and publication date. Not evidence of exploitation.

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APA

KEVWire. (2026, November 1). Improper neutralization of input during web page generation in Apache Wicket. (CVE-2026-82956). https://kevwire.com/record/CVE-2026-82956

MLA

"Improper neutralization of input during web page generation in Apache Wicket. (CVE-2026-82956)." KEVWire, 1 Nov. 2026, kevwire.com/record/CVE-2026-82956.

Chicago

KEVWire. "Improper neutralization of input during web page generation in Apache Wicket. (CVE-2026-82956)." Last modified November 1, 2026. https://kevwire.com/record/CVE-2026-82956.

Evidence summary (plain text)

Improper neutralization of input during web page generation in Apache Wicket. (Nov 1, 2026).
Improper neutralization of input during web page generation in Apache Wicket.

org.apache.wicket.ajax.AjaxNewWindowNotifyingBehavior notices that a page instance has been opened in a second browser window or tab. It asks the browser for the value of window.name, which reaches the server as the request parameter windowName, and remembers what the browser reported in a field of the behaviour. That field is part of the page's serialized state, so the remembered value stays in the page store for as long as the page instance does.
CVSS 7.6 (version 4.0; evidence as of Nov 1, 2026; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-82956).
Sources:
NVD CVE-2026-82956: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-82956
NVD CVE API 2.0: https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?lastModStartDate=2026-11-01T23:15:57.054Z&lastModEndDate=2026-11-02T00:50:55.984Z&resultsPerPage=500&startIndex=0
NVD CVE API 2.0: https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?lastModStartDate=2026-11-01T22:40:59.243Z&lastModEndDate=2026-11-02T00:15:55.446Z&resultsPerPage=500&startIndex=0
NVD CVE API 2.0: https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?lastModStartDate=2026-11-01T22:05:59.838Z&lastModEndDate=2026-11-01T23:40:56.426Z&resultsPerPage=500&startIndex=0
Record ID: CVE-2026-82956.
Record origin: Ingested record.
AI evidence: Not assessed.
Known exploitation: Not assessed.
Zero-day status: Not assessed. KEV membership alone does not establish zero-day status.
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NVD status: Received. Publication in the NVD is not evidence of exploitation.

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