Advisories for Composer/Winter/Wn-Backend-Module package

2026

Winter vulnerable to privilege escalation by authenticated backend users

Affected versions of Winter CMS allowed authenticated backend users to escalate their accounts level of access to the system by modifying the roles / permissions assigned to their account through specially crafted requests to the backend while logged in. To actively exploit this security issue, an attacker would need access to the Backend with a user account with any level of access. The Winter CMS maintainers strongly recommend that all …

2024

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Winter is a free, open-source content management system. Users with access to backend forms that include a ColorPicker FormWidget can provide a value that would then be included without further processing in the compilation of custom stylesheets via LESS. This had the potential to lead to a Local File Inclusion vulnerability. This issue has been patched in v1.2.4.

2023