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CVE-2026-63179: CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') in wintercms winter

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Medium
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-63179cvecve-2026-63179cwe-22
Published: 08/26/2026 (08/26/2026, 18:06:14 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, authenticated backend users can disclose arbitrary files readable by the PHP process by injecting @import (inline) directives into LESS source that the backend compiles, because the LESS parser was instantiated without a safe import resolver and fell back to the raw attacker-supplied path when no allowed root matched. The flaw is reachable through four entry points that share the same root cause: the Brand Settings custom_css field, the Editor Settings html_custom_styles field, the Mail Brand Settings colour-picker fields whose values are concatenated into LESS source without escaping, and theme .less, .sass, and .scss assets compiled when served. Both absolute paths and .. traversal outside the asset's own tree were accepted, so an attacker could read any file the web process can access, most significantly the application .env file and the APP_KEY and database credentials it contains. Exploitation requires a backend account holding one of the associated permissions, which are assigned by default to the built-in Developer role. This issue is fixed in version 1.2.13.

CVSS v3.1

Score 4.9medium

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

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
GitHub_M
Date Reserved
2026-07-15T22:13:00.720Z
Cvss Version
3.1
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null

Threat ID: 6a8f3604acd9273b49426232

Added to database: 08/26/2026, 18:52:52 UTC

Last updated: 08/26/2026, 21:07:51 UTC

Views: 6

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