What is CVE-2023-52085?

CVE-2023-52085 is a low-severity vulnerability in Wintercms Winter, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2023-12-29.

How severe is CVE-2023-52085?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Wintercms Winter

CVE-2023-52085

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.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

Published 2023-12-29 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.3 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.302 (98.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-28.

Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 98.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.302 · newest: 0.302 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Wintercms Winter — versions < 1.2.4

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

github.com/wintercms/winter/security/advisories/GHSA-2x7r-93ww-cxrq (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
github.com/wintercms/winter/commit/5bc9257fe2bc47d8b786a1b1bf96bafad23d8ddd (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-52085?: CVE-2023-52085 is a low-severity vulnerability in Wintercms Winter, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 3.3/10. Published 2023-12-29.
How severe is CVE-2023-52085?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.3 out of 10.