🛡️ CVE-2016-6806 — wicket-core

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-352 OSV
8.0
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Description

Apache Wicket vulnerable to CSRF attacks

Apache Wicket 6.x before 6.25.0, 7.x before 7.5.0, and 8.0.0-M1 provide a CSRF prevention measure that fails to discover some cross origin requests. The mitigation is to not only check the Origin HTTP header, but also take the Referer HTTP header into account when no Origin was provided. Furthermore, not all Wicket server side targets were subjected to the CSRF check. This was also fixed.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2016-6806 is classified as CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). A state-changing request is accepted without proof it was intended, so another site can trigger it using the victim's session.

Affected software

CVE-2016-6806 is recorded against 1 package.

  • org.apache.wicket:wicket-core (from 8.0.0-M1 up to 8.0.0-M2)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 23 April 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
lists.apache.org (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-352
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-04-23
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.apache.wicket:wicket-core 8.0.0-M1 8.0.0-M2

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