Severity: moderate 

Affected versions:

- Apache Wicket (org.apache.wicket:wicket-core) 9.1.0 through 9.23.0
- Apache Wicket (org.apache.wicket:wicket-core) 10.0.0 through 10.10.0

Description:

ResourceIsolationRequestCycleListener protects a Wicket application against 
cross-site request forgery by rejecting requests that a resource isolation 
policy judges to come from another origin. Its default policy, 
FetchMetadataResourceIsolationPolicy, was derived from a reference 
implementation written to guard static resources, and it inherited two 
allowances that are unsafe when the thing being guarded is an action on a page:
  *  Every "simple top-level navigation" was allowed. Any GET request carrying 
Sec-Fetch-Mode: navigate whose Sec-Fetch-Dest was neither object nor embed was 
allowed, whatever Sec-Fetch-Site said — including cross-site. Wicket invokes 
component listeners (Link.onClick(), form submits, behaviour callbacks) through 
ordinary GET navigations, so a page under an attacker's control could navigate 
the victim's browser to a listener URL and have that listener run inside the 
victim's authenticated session. Browsers send SameSite=Lax cookies — the 
effective default when no SameSite attribute is set — on cross-site top-level 
GET navigations, so the victim's session cookie accompanied the request.
  *  Sec-Fetch-Site: same-site was allowed unconditionally. That value means 
the same registrable domain and scheme but a different origin — another 
subdomain or another port. Any sibling origin could therefore invoke any 
listener by any method, POST form submits included, and cookies are always sent 
on same-site requests regardless of SameSite. A hostile sibling origin obtained 
through a subdomain takeover, through delegated user content, or through an XSS 
elsewhere on the site could act as the authenticated user.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 9.24.0 or 10.11.0, which fix the 
issue.
Affected versions

  *  Apache Wicket 9.1.0 through 9.23.0
  *  Apache Wicket 10.0.0 through 10.10.0



Not affected

Any release older than 9.1.0:
  *  Apache Wicket 8.x (8.0.0 through 8.17.0). The resource isolation classes 
do not exist in the 8.x line, which offers only the Origin/Referer-based 
CsrfPreventionRequestCycleListener. No 8.x release requires a fix.
  *  Apache Wicket 9.0.0. ResourceIsolationRequestCycleListener and 
FetchMetadataResourceIsolationPolicy were introduced by WICKET-6786 and first 
shipped in 9.1.0 (released 2020-10-07).

Credit:

Darren Carreras (finder)
Andre Kropp (Nexory) (finder)

References:

https://wicket.apache.org/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-71378

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