CVE-2025-5482

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

2025-06-03 19:10
Brian Sans-Souci (liardom)

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 3.4.12
Affected Plugin
Sunshine Photo Cart – Client Photo Gallery & Photo Proofing for Photographers
Affected Version
<= 3.4.11
CVSS
8.8High
Weakness type
CWE-620 · Unverified Password Change
CVE
CVE-2025-5482
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At a glance

CVE-2025-5482 is a high-severity Unverified Password Change vulnerability in the Sunshine Photo Cart WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.4.11. It carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity; high confidentiality, integrity, availability impact). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Subscriber level or above. The issue is fixed in version 3.4.12; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed June 2025, reported by Brian Sans-Souci (liardom).

Vulnerability Overview

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.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user. A successful exploit has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability — full site compromise territory.

CWE-620: Unverified Password Change

Reaching this weakness in Sunshine Photo Cart <= 3.4.11 takes an account at Subscriber level or above. Unverified password change means the password-update path does not require proof that the requester is the account owner.

An attacker who can reach the endpoint takes over the account outright, and the legitimate owner is locked out of it. For Sunshine Photo Cart the fix is 3.4.12: builds <= 3.4.11 are affected, anything from 3.4.12 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.4.12, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Sunshine Photo Cart 3.4.12 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5482https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5311b43c-14dd-4bdd-b6d0-d6468b831968https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5482

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