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Apache Wicket: XSS in AjaxNewWindowNotifyingBehavior via the client-supplied window name

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Summary

Apache Wicket web applications that have explicitly added AjaxNewWindowNotifyingBehavior to a component are affected, because a browser-supplied window name is stored and later written unescaped into page JavaScript, enabling cross-site scripting in the application's origin each time that page is rendered. Applications that do not use this behaviour are not affected.

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Improper neutralization of input during web page generation in Apache Wicket. org.apache.wicket.ajax.AjaxNewWindowNotifyingBehavior notices that a page instance has been opened in a second browser window or tab. It asks the browser for the value of window.name, which reaches the server as the request parameter windowName, and remembers what the browser reported in a field of the behaviour. That field is part of the page's serialized state, so the remembered value stays in the page store for as long as the page instance does. On every later render of that page instance the behaviour builds the precondition of its Ajax call by substituting the remembered value into a single-quoted JavaScript string literal, and Wicket writes that precondition into the page as raw JavaScript, because the precondition of an Ajax call listener is script supplied by the caller and is emitted without quoting or escaping. Nothing on that path escapes the value. The window name is client-supplied and Wicket applies no validation to it, so a remembered name containing a single quote ends the literal and the rest of it runs as script in the application's origin, every time that page instance is rendered. An application is affected only where it has explicitly added AjaxNewWindowNotifyingBehavior to a component. No part of the framework installs the behaviour, so an application that does not use it is not affected. The name the behaviour generates for itself, when the browser reports no name at all, is a random UUID and is not client-supplied. This issue affects Apache Wicket: from 8.0.0 through 8.19.0, from 9.0.0 through 9.24.0, from 10.0.0 through 10.11.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 8.20.0, 9.25.0 or 10.12.0, which fix the issue.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now

Affected versions

  • org.apache.wicket:wicket-core

    From 8.0.0 · through 8.19.0; From 9.0.0 · through 9.24.0; From 10.0.0 · through 10.11.0

Evidence 1

  1. Advisory

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