CVE-2016-6806 Apache Wicket CSRF detection vulnerability
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Severity: Important
Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation
Versions Affected: Apache Wicket 6.20.0, 6.21.0, 6.22.0, 6.23.0, 6.24.0, 7.0.0, 7.1.0, 7.2.0, 7.3.0, 7.4.0 and 8.0.0-M1
Description: Affected versions of Apache Wicket 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.
Mitigation: 6.x users should upgrade to 6.25.0, 7.x users should upgrade to 7.5.0 and 8.0.0-M1 users should upgrade to 8.0.0-M2.
Credit: This issue was discovered by Gerben Janssen van Doorn
References: https://wicket.apache.org/news
The application developers are recommended to upgrade to:
Users of Wicket verions prior to 6.20 are not affected because the particular component was introduced in 6.20.0.