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TI-2024-21102 Aliases CVE-2024-32003GHSA-chcp-g9j5-3xxx

Dusk plugin may allow unfettered user authentication in misconfigured installs

Priority MEDIUM 41CWE-269Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Privilege escalation, Security bypass
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-269 and CWE-863.

Summary

wn-dusk-plugin (Dusk plugin) is a plugin which integrates Laravel Dusk browser testing into Winter CMS. The Dusk plugin provides some special routes as part of its testing framework to allow a browser environment (such as headless Chrome) to act as a user in the Backend or User plugin without having to go through authentication. This route is `[[URL]]/_dusk/login/[[USER ID]]/[[MANAGER]]` - where `[[URL]]` is the base URL of the site, `[[USER ID]]` is the ID of the user account and `[[MANAGER]]` is the authentication manager (either `backend` for Backend, or `user` for the User plugin). If a configuration of a site using the Dusk plugin is set up in such a way that the Dusk plugin is available publicly and the test cases in Dusk are run with live data, this route may potentially be used to gain access to any user account in either the Backend or User plugin without authentication. As indicated in the `README`, this plugin should only be used in development and should *NOT* be used in a production instance. It is specifically recommended that the plugin be installed as a development dependency only in Composer. In order to remediate this issue, the special routes used above will now no longer be registered unless the `APP_ENV` environment variable is specifically set to `dusk`. Since Winter by default does not use this environment variable and it is not populated by default, it will only exist if Dusk's automatic configuration is used (which won't exhibit this vulnerability) or if a developer manually specifies it in their configuration. The automatic configuration performed by the Dusk plugin has also been hardened by default to use sane defaults and not allow external environment variables to leak into this configuration. This will only affect users in which the Winter CMS installation meets ALL the following criteria: 1. The Dusk plugin is installed in the Winter CMS instance. 2. The application is in production mode (ie. the `debug` config value is set to `true` in `config/app.php`). 3. The Dusk plugin's automatic configuration has been overridden, either by providing a custom `.env.dusk` file or by providing custom configuration in the `config/dusk` folder, or by providing configuration environment variables externally. 4. The environment has been configured to use production data in the database for testing, and not the temporary SQLite database that Dusk uses by default. 5. The application is connectable via the web. This issue has been fixed in version 2.1.0. Users are advised to upgrade.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00672 52nd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed wn-dusk-plugin (wintercms): 2.1.0winter/wn-dusk-plugin (Packagist): 2.1.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
wintercmswn-dusk-pluginbefore 2.1.02.1.0Patch availableCNA
—winter/wn-dusk-plugin (Packagist)before 2.1.02.1.0Patch availableGHSA-chcp-g9j5-3xxx
  • wn-dusk-plugin Vendorwintercms Affected before 2.1.0 Fixed in 2.1.0 Patch available CNA
  • winter/wn-dusk-plugin (Packagist) Vendor— Affected before 2.1.0 Fixed in 2.1.0 Patch available GHSA-chcp-g9j5-3xxx

CPE names CISA-ADP · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:wintercms:wn-dusk-plugin:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*2.1.0—wintercms
  • cpe:2.3:a:wintercms:wn-dusk-plugin:2.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 2.1.0 — ·wintercms

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA wn-dusk-plugin (wintercms) Fixed in 2.1.0
  • Fix · GHSA-chcp-g9j5-3xxx winter/wn-dusk-plugin (Packagist) Fixed in 2.1.0 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-32003
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-chcp-g9j5-3xxx

References

  • TI-2024-19497 Server-side Template Injection (SSTI) vulnerability in Winter CMS v.1.2.3 allows a remote… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.2
  • TI-2023-28528 Winter CMS Local File Inclusion through Server Side Template Injection CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
  • TI-2022-18732 Winter vulnerable to Prototype Pollution in Snowboard framework CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2026-55251 Winter CMS before 1.2.13 Twig Sandbox Escape via SecurityPolicy CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
  • TI-2026-21979 Winter: Privilege escalation by authenticated backend users CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
  • TI-2024-36264 Winter CMS Modules allows a sandbox bypass in Twig templates leading to data modification and deletion CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.5
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