CVE-2026-32639Winter: Broken access control in `Cms\Controllers\Index` allows cross-template actions and unauthorized asset uploads
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 0.46%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 60% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Winter CMS is a content management system built on the Laravel PHP framework. In versions up to and including 1.2.12, the CMS section's Theme Editor AJAX handlers did not enforce per-template-type permission checks, allowing a backend user with any single CMS permission to act on template types outside their authorized scope. The CMS controller gated access to the section as a whole using OR-logic across its five permissions, but individual handlers such as onSave(), onDelete(), and onDeleteTemplates() did not verify that the user held the specific permission for the requested template type, so a user with only cms.manage_pages could craft AJAX requests to delete layouts, modify partials, or read content files. Separately, the AssetList widget was registered for any user who passed the controller gate regardless of the cms.manage_assets permission, and its onUpload() handler omitted the theme-validation call present on the other mutating handlers, permitting unauthorized file uploads into the active theme's asset directory. Exploitation requires an authenticated backend account holding at least one of the CMS Theme Editor permissions. This issue is fixed in version 1.2.13.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 3 days later
· 3 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.46% · top 60% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Packagistwinter/wn-cms-moduleGHSA-5c4f-9pq9-6c77 (opens in a new tab)
References
References4
- https://github.com/wintercms/winter/security/advisories/GHSA-5c4f-9pq9-6c77 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/wintercms/winter/commit/164c62524e8abc153d09c6c35916278bdb746a2b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/wintercms/winter/commit/5391afa242eba3c476869035b7492e50a262c46b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/wintercms/winter/releases/tag/v1.2.13 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-66643 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-5c4f-9pq9-6c77 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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