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.
CVE-2025-5482 is a high severity with CVSS 8.8 Privilege Escalation issue affecting the Plugin Sunshine Photo Cart – Client Photo Gallery & Photo Proofing for Photographers. It affects Versions up to 3.4.11 and is fixed in 3.4.12.
CVE-2025-5482 is tracked for the Plugin Sunshine Photo Cart – Client Photo Gallery & Photo Proofing for Photographers as high severity with CVSS 8.8. The affected range is Versions up to 3.4.11. Update Sunshine Photo Cart – Client Photo Gallery & Photo Proofing for Photographers to 3.4.12 or newer where that version is compatible with the site.
| Software Type | Plugin |
|---|---|
| Software Slug |
sunshine-photo-cart
View on wordpress.org
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| CVE | CVE-2025-5482 |
| Patched Versions |
3.4.12
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| Affected Versions |
Versions up to 3.4.11
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These internal links group the same WordPress plugin by CVE, issue type, severity, and patch status so operators and search engines can connect the full vulnerability cluster.
Sunshine Photo Cart <= 3.4.10 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection
Sunshine Photo Cart: Free Client Photo Galleries for Photographers <= 3.1.1 - Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection
Sunshine Photo Cart <= 2.9.13 - Cross-Site Request Forgery
Sunshine Photo Cart <= 2.9.13 - Missing Authorization
Sunshine Photo Cart <= 3.2.9 - Open Redirect
Sunshine Photo Cart <= 3.2.5 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Sunshine Photo Cart <= 3.1.1 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
Sunshine Photo Cart <= 2.9.14 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
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