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Winter CMS

Laravel-based CMS focused on simplicity and stability

Content Management Systems ★ 1.5k stars Medium setup MIT

Winter CMS is a free, open-source content management system based on the Laravel framework, created as a community-driven fork of October CMS. It offers a clean backend, a plugin marketplace, and developer-friendly tooling.

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Key features

  • Laravel foundation
  • Plugin marketplace
  • Clean admin backend
  • Developer tooling

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Active community (1.5k GitHub stars)
  • Written in PHP

Trade-offs

  • Requires PHP knowledge
  • Smaller plugin catalog

Is Winter CMS secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Winter CMS's latest release (v1.2.14). OSV.dev lists 15 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2026-32257, published 2026-08-26 (49 days ago), fixed in 1.2.13

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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