The vulnerability stems from Winter CMS's handling of user-provided Twig templates in Pages and Plugin components. The exploit demonstrates that unescaped Twig syntax (e.g., {{7*7}}) is directly evaluated during rendering. Key functions in the CMS rendering pipeline (Controller::renderPage for pages, ComponentBase::onRun for plugins) process these templates without sufficient validation or sandboxing. The CWE-97 mapping confirms improper SSI neutralization, and the PHP/Twig template structure documentation shows user-editable sections where payloads could be injected. While the vendor disputes exploitability due to requiring admin privileges, the technical root cause lies in these rendering functions accepting raw Twig input.