WinterCMS Winter up to 1.2.12 LESS Parser information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in WinterCMS Winter up to 1.2.12. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component LESS Parser. Executing a manipulation can lead to information disclosure. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-63179. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in WinterCMS Winter up to 1.2.12. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component LESS Parser. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-63179 since 07/16/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 1.2.13 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• WinterCMS

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• Winter

Version

• 1.2.0
• 1.2.1
• 1.2.2
• 1.2.3
• 1.2.4
• 1.2.5
• 1.2.6
• 1.2.7
• 1.2.8
• 1.2.9
• 1.2.10
• 1.2.11
• 1.2.12

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• Product: https://github.com/wintercms/winter/

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