CVE-2025-5482 (GCVE-0-2025-5482)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-04 07:21
Modified
2025-06-04 13:44
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-620 - Unverified Password Change
Summary
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
security@wordfence.comhttps://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sunshine-photo-cart/trunk/includes/functions/account.php#L303Product
security@wordfence.comhttps://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=Patch
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5311b43c-14dd-4bdd-b6d0-d6468b831968?source=cveThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
sunshinephotocart Sunshine Photo Cart: Free Client Photo Galleries for Photographers Version: *   ≤ 3.4.11
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