# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-76984"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-31T11:56:15.981Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-31T14:19:30.897Z"
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-2026-76984"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-76984.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-76984"
title: "Apache Wicket: XSS in MetaDataHeaderItem via addTagAttribute"
summary: "Improper neutralization of input during web page generation in Apache Wicket.\n\norg.apache.wicket.markup.head.MetaDataHeaderItem generates \u003cmeta\u003e and \u003clink\u003e header tags. It escaped the attribute names it wrote, but ran the attribute values through a replacement of \" with \\\". A backslash before a double quote means nothing in HTML, so a value containing a double quote ends its own attribute and what follows is parsed as further attributes of the generated tag.\n\nAn application is affected where it supplies an attribute value holding data an attacker can influence, through addTagAttribute or the forMetaTag and forLinkTag factory methods. A value may be given as an IModel, so it is not necessarily a literal.\n\nThere is no setting to change; an application can only avoid supplying a value that contains a double quote. Note that these values have never been escaped effectively: before the change released in 6.24.0, 7.4.0 and 8.0.0 they were written with no escaping at all.\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 6.17.0 onwards are also affected. Users 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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