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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-76982"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-31T11:52:26.161Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-31T14:19:06.921Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-76982"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-76982.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-76982"
title: "Apache Wicket: XSS in Button via its model object"
summary: "Improper neutralization of input during web page generation in Apache Wicket.\n\norg.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.Button clears the escape-model-strings flag in its constructor, so that the value attribute it writes is not encoded twice — ComponentTag already encodes attribute values when it writes the tag. That reasoning holds only for the attribute. When the component is attached to a \u003cbutton\u003e element rather than an \u003cinput\u003e, it writes its model object into the element body instead, and nothing encodes an element body, so markup in the model is rendered as markup.\n\nAn application is affected where it renders a Button on a \u003cbutton\u003e element and that button's model holds data an attacker can influence. Wicket cannot determine where a model value comes from, so whether it reaches the page from a request or from storage is a property of the application. The subclasses that inherit this constructor — AjaxButton, AjaxFallbackButton and WizardButton — are affected on the same terms.\n\nAs a workaround, calling setEscapeModelStrings(true) on a button that renders as a \u003cbutton\u003e element escapes the body correctly, and does not cause double encoding, because the value attribute is written only for \u003cinput\u003e elements.\n\nThis issue affects Apache Wicket: from 8.0.0 through 8.18.0, from 9.0.0 through 9.23.0, from 10.0.0 through 10.10.0. Older, unsupported releases from 6.25.0 and 7.5.0 onwards are also affected.\n\nUsers are recommended to upgrade to version 8.19.0, 9.24.0 or 10.11.0, which fix the issue."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"8.18.0"},{"version":"9.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"9.23.0"},{"version":"10.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"10.10.0"}],"vendor":"Apache Software Foundation","product":"Apache Wicket","packageName":"org.apache.wicket:wicket-core","collectionURL":"https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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