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🛡️ CVE-2024-36522 — wicket

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-74 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
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Description

Apache Wicket: Remote code execution via XSLT injection

The default configuration of XSLTResourceStream.java is vulnerable to remote code execution via XSLT injection when processing input from an untrusted source without validation.

Users are recommended to upgrade to versions 10.1.0, 9.18.0 or 8.16.0, which fix this issue.

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. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-36522 is classified as CWE-74: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection'). The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or…

Affected software

CVE-2024-36522 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • org.apache.wicket:wicket-util (from 8.0.0 up to 8.16.0)
  • wicket

Timeline and source

Published on 12 July 2024 and last revised on 7 December 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-74: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-74
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-07-12
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2024-12-07
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.apache.wicket:wicket-util 8.0.0 8.16.0
wicket — —

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