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🛡️ CVE-2026-43975 — wicket

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-22 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
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Description

Apache Wicket has a Path Traversal issue

FolderUploadsFileManager in Apache Wicket does not validate or sanitize the uploadFieldId parameter or the clientFileName

before constructing file paths, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to

write arbitrary files outside the intended upload directory or read

files from arbitrary locations on the server.

This issue affects Apache Wicket: from 8.0.0 through 8.17.0, from 9.0.0 through 9.22.0, from 10.0.0 through 10.8.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 10.9.0, which fixes the 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 low, integrity low, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

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

  • 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: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-43975 is classified as CWE-22: Path Traversal. A file path built from user input is not confined to the intended directory, letting an attacker reach files elsewhere on the filesystem.

Affected software

CVE-2026-43975 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • org.apache.wicket:wicket-core (from 10.0.0-M1 up to 10.9.0)
  • wicket (from 10.0.0 up to 10.9.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 6 May 2026 and last revised on 15 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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

Other advisories for this package

org.apache.wicket:wicket-core has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-22: Path Traversal) in other software:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-22
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-05-06
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-15

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.apache.wicket:wicket-core 10.0.0-M1 10.9.0
wicket 10.0.0 10.9.0

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