CVE-2024-27439 Apache Wicket: Possible bypass of CSRF protection

What is CVE-2024-27439?

CVE-2024-27439 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Wicket, published on 19 Mar 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An error in the evaluation of the fetch metadata headers could allow a bypass of the CSRF protection in Apache Wicket. This issue affects Apache Wicket: from 9.1.0 through 9.16.0, and the milestone releases for the 10.0 series. Apache Wicket 8.x does not support CSRF protection via the fetch metadata headers and as such is not affected.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 9.17.0 or 10.0.0, which fixes the issue.

Weakness: CWE-444, CWE-352

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-27439?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.apache.wicket:wicket. It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Wicket.

How do I fix CVE-2024-27439?

Upgrade org.apache.wicket:wicket to a fixed version for your release line: 10.0.0 or 9.17.0.

Is CVE-2024-27439 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-27439 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Apache Wicket

• CVE-2024-36522 Apache Wicket: Remote code execution via XSLT injection Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-40010 Apache Wicket: possible session fixation using AuthenticatedWebSession Critical 9.1
• CVE-2016-6793 Deserialization in n/a Critical 9.1
• CVE-2016-6806 Apache Wicket vulnerable to CSRF attacks High 8.8
• CVE-2026-71257 Apache Wicket: Configured file upload limits are not enforced when the multipart request has already been parsed High 7.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-8vvp-525h-cxf9.