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CVE-2025-5482: Sunshine Photo Cart <= 3.4.11 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-06-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-620

Description

The Sunshine Photo Cart: Free Client Photo Galleries for Photographers plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 3.4.11. This is due to the plugin not properly validating a user-supplied key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to change arbitrary user's passwords through the password reset functionality, including administrators, and leverage that to reset the user's password and gain access to their account.

Affected products

• sunshinephotocart Sunshine Photo Cart: before 3.4.12 — fixed in 3.4.12

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: sunshinephotocart Sunshine Photo Cart 3.4.12. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sunshine-photo-cart/trunk/includes/functions/account.php#L303
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&new=3305406%40sunshine-photo-cart%2Ftrunk&old=3261773%40sunshine-photo-cart%2Ftrunk&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5311b43c-14dd-4bdd-b6d0-d6468b831968?source=cve

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