CVE-2025-5482: CWE-620 Unverified Password Change in sunshinephotocart Sunshine Photo Cart – Client Photo Gallery & Photo Proofing for Photographers
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.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
CVE-2025-5482 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Sunshine Photo Cart – Client Photo Gallery & Photo Proofing for Photographers WordPress plugin. The issue arises because the plugin does not properly validate a user-supplied key during the password reset process. Authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level privileges or above can exploit this flaw to change the passwords of arbitrary users, including administrators, thereby gaining unauthorized access to their accounts. The vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 3.4.11.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation allows an attacker with low-level authenticated access to escalate privileges by resetting passwords of any user, including administrators. This leads to full account takeover, compromising confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected WordPress site and its data.
Mitigation Recommendations
No official patch or fix is currently confirmed for this vulnerability. Users should monitor the vendor's advisory for updates. Until a fix is available, restrict Subscriber-level access to trusted users only and consider disabling or limiting the use of the password reset functionality within the plugin if possible.
CVE-2025-5482: CWE-620 Unverified Password Change in sunshinephotocart Sunshine Photo Cart – Client Photo Gallery & Photo Proofing for Photographers
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.
CVSS v3.1
Score 8.8high
Affected software
Weaknesses
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
CVE-2025-5482 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Sunshine Photo Cart – Client Photo Gallery & Photo Proofing for Photographers WordPress plugin. The issue arises because the plugin does not properly validate a user-supplied key during the password reset process. Authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level privileges or above can exploit this flaw to change the passwords of arbitrary users, including administrators, thereby gaining unauthorized access to their accounts. The vulnerability affects all versions up to and including 3.4.11.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation allows an attacker with low-level authenticated access to escalate privileges by resetting passwords of any user, including administrators. This leads to full account takeover, compromising confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected WordPress site and its data.
Mitigation Recommendations
No official patch or fix is currently confirmed for this vulnerability. Users should monitor the vendor's advisory for updates. Until a fix is available, restrict Subscriber-level access to trusted users only and consider disabling or limiting the use of the password reset functionality within the plugin if possible.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.1
- Assigner Short Name
- Wordfence
- Date Reserved
- 2025-06-02T19:40:42.633Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 6840335a182aa0cae2abb9d0
Added to database: 06/04/2025, 11:51:54 UTC
Last enriched: 07/30/2026, 01:01:59 UTC
Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:51 UTC
Views: 159
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