Sunshine Photo Cart <= 3.4.11 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation

Unverified Password Change
CVE CVE-2025-5482
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published June 3, 2025
Last Updated June 4, 2025
Researcher Brian Sans-Souci (liardom), the sneaky squirrel
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug sunshine-photo-cart (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.4.11
Patched Version
  • 3.4.12
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