CVE-2016-6806
Apache Wicket 6.x before 6.25.0, 7.x before 7.5.0, and 8.0.0-M1 provide a CSRF prevention measure that fails to discover some cross origin…
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Description
Apache Wicket 6.x before 6.25.0, 7.x before 7.5.0, and 8.0.0-M1 provide a CSRF prevention measure that fails to discover some cross origin requests. The mitigation is to not only check the Origin HTTP header, but also take the Referer HTTP header into account when no Origin was provided. Furthermore, not all Wicket server side targets were subjected to the CSRF check. This was also fixed.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apache
- 14 months later
· 14 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.82% · top 42% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
- CSRF check fails
- CWE-352 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-352 and its CVEs
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Wicket
- affected 6.20.0
- affected 6.21.0
- affected 6.22.0
- affected 6.23.0
- affected 6.24.0
- affected 7.0.0
- affected 7.1.0
- affected 7.2.0
- affected 7.3.0
- affected 7.4.0
- affected 8.0.0-M1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.apache.wicket:wicket-coreGHSA-xc66-mg8r-q6r5 (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
- [wicket-announce] 20161108 CVE-2016-6806: Apache Wicket CSRF detection vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-xc66-mg8r-q6r5 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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