A friend and I spawned the wither, and while we were fighting it, I died and respawned and was on my way back to where the wither was to help my friend when he died and respawned back at our house, and when we both arrived on scene to try to continue killing the wither, no attacks would result in the wither taking damage. My friend shot him with a bow multiple times, and he changed color to red (similar to what happens when mobs take damage), but his health bar would not reduce. I got close enough to hit the wither with my enchanted diamond sword and got 8 good hits in, and each time, he flashes red like he takes damage, but the health bar does not reduce.
The wither destroyed most of that area of the map, and I after 30 minutes of dying, continuing to put on armor, run over to where the wither was located with our diamond swords, and trying to kill it, I eventually had to turn on cheats and use a kill command to kill it because it wouldn't take damage.
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Had the same problem! It was my first Wither fight and completely expected to die, but I was dumb and decided to spawn him underground with a wireless connection. Not only will he not take damage but when ever I go near him my world keeps glitching and I keep falling through. Waiting for Minecraft support to reach back out to me and see if they can restore an old save file for me since I'm on xbox.
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I had this exact same problem