{"cve":"CVE-2026-83539","nvd":{"published":"2026-11-01T23:17:29.317","modified":"2026-11-01T23:17:29.317","status":"Received","description":"Improper neutralization of input during web page generation in Apache Wicket.\n\norg.apache.wicket.extensions.markup.html.basic.SmartLinkLabel and org.apache.wicket.extensions.markup.html.basic.SmartLinkMultiLineLabel display a text value and turn any URL they find in it into a hyperlink. Both escape the model value and then hand the escaped text to org.apache.wicket.extensions.markup.html.basic.DefaultLinkParser, which searches it for anything of the form scheme://rest and wraps each match in an anchor whose href is the matched text, copied in as it is. The pattern accepts any scheme, and there is no list of permitted schemes anywhere on the path. A text value naming a scheme that executes script therefore becomes an anchor that executes it, in the application's origin and in the reader's own session, when the reader clicks the link. Rendering the page is not enough on its own; the link has to be activated. Escaping does not prevent this and is not the issue: the characters the payload needs are all valid in a URL and are ones that org.apache.wicket.util.string.Strings#escapeMarkup() leaves alone, and the value ends up in a URL rather than in element text, which is a context that escaping model data does not make safe.\n\nAn application is affected where it renders text it received through either of these two components. That is what they are for: they exist to linkify email addresses and web URLs found in the data an application is displaying, so untrusted input is the purpose of the feature rather than a misuse of it, and no unusual configuration is involved. No other component uses this parser, and an application that uses neither SmartLinkLabel nor SmartLinkMultiLineLabel is not affected.\n\nOn 9.x and 10.x the Content-Security-Policy Wicket sends by default admits script only from a source carrying a per-response nonce, and a URL whose scheme executes script cannot carry one, so that default policy stops the script from running. This is a property of the default policy and not of these components. An application that has weakened or disabled its Content-Security-Policy, for this or for any unrelated reason, is affected in full. Wicket 8.x has no Content-Security-Policy support at all and is affected as it stands.\n\nThis 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.","cvss_v4":{"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","score":7.4},"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-79"],"references":["https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/xqdymd8g178sc112lmqbp53zlss53cwz"],"reference_tags":[{"url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/xqdymd8g178sc112lmqbp53zlss53cwz","tags":[]}],"products":[],"affected":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-11-01T23:36:13.294661700+00:00"},"epss":null,"kev":null,"exploits":[],"weaknesses":[{"name":"Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation","common_name":"Cross-site Scripting","deprecated":false,"replaced_by":[],"id":"CWE-79"}],"osv":[],"fixed":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program.","Public exploits: links to the Exploit Database (https://www.exploit-db.com, by OffSec; index under GPL-2.0), Rapid7's Metasploit Framework modules (https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework, BSD-3-Clause) and ProjectDiscovery's nuclei templates (https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates, MIT). Only the links, titles and dates are stored; no exploit code is fetched or served.","CWE names and descriptions: MITRE's Common Weakness Enumeration (https://cwe.mitre.org), Copyright © 2006–2026, The MITRE Corporation, under the CWE terms of use (https://cwe.mitre.org/about/termsofuse.html). CWE is a trademark of The MITRE Corporation."]}