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CVE-2026-54256: CWE-284: Improper Access Control in wintercms winter

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Medium
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-54256cvecve-2026-54256cwe-284cwe-639
Published: 08/26/2026 (08/26/2026, 17:53:36 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: wintercms
Product: winter

Description

Winter CMS is a content management system built on the Laravel PHP framework. In versions up to and including 1.2.12, the backend FileUpload form widget trusted an attacker-controlled file_id POST parameter when resolving the attachment it operates on, allowing an authenticated backend user to read and modify attachment records belonging to other users or records. The widget's getFileRecord() lookup resolved the posted id against the global system_files table without verifying that the file belonged to the widget's own relation, parent record, or deferred-binding session. Because all attachments share a single File model and table and attachment ids are sequential integers that are easily enumerated, a user reaching any form with a fileupload field, including the built-in My Account avatar field that requires no specific permission, could target arbitrary attachments to modify their title and description via onSaveAttachmentConfig and change their sort order via onSortAttachments, which passed posted ids straight to an unscoped update. CSRF tokens remain enforced, so exploitation requires a valid authenticated backend session with any level of access. This issue is fixed in version 1.2.13.

CVSS v3.1

Score 5.4medium

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
GitHub_M
Date Reserved
2026-06-12T16:25:43.086Z
Cvss Version
3.1
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null

Threat ID: 6a8f2b77acd9273b49385c9f

Added to database: 08/26/2026, 18:07:51 UTC

Last updated: 08/26/2026, 20:07:51 UTC

Views: 6

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