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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-11976

By crafting a special URL it is possible to make Wicket deliver unprocessed HTML templates. This would allow an attacker to see possibly sensitive information inside a HTML template that is usually removed during rendering. Affected are Apache Wicket versions 7.16.0, 8.8.0 and 9.0.0-M5

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1 Nov 2026, 07:01 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2020-11976

core-osv · Original source

Published 11 Aug 2020, 19:15 UTC

By crafting a special URL it is possible to make Wicket deliver unprocessed HTML templates. This would allow an attacker to see possibly sensitive information inside a HTML template that is usually removed during rendering. Affected are Apache Wicket versions 7.16.0, 8.8.0 and 9.0.0-M5

osv:CVE-2020-11976
Complete source record
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    "summary": "By crafting a special URL it is possible to make Wicket deliver unprocessed HTML templates. This would allow an attacker to see possibly sensitive information inside a HTML template that is usually removed during rendering. Affected are Apache Wicket versions 7.16.0, 8.8.0 and 9.0.0-M5",
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        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r104eeefeb1e9da51f7ef79cef0f9ff12e21ef8559b77801e86b21e16%40%3Cusers.wicket.apache.org%3E"
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