Sunshine Photo Cart <= 3.4.11 — Authenticated (Subscriber+) Privilege Escalation
CVE-2025-5482Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤3.4.11Update to 3.4.12 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.8
- CVSS
- 8.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Sunshine Photo Cart – Client Photo Gallery & Photo Proofing for Photographers sunshine-photo-cart
- Affected≤ 3.4.11
- Patched in3.4.12
Update to 3.4.12 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 3.4.11. Version 3.4.12 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Sunshine Photo Cart – Client Photo Gallery & Photo Proofing for Photographers.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 3.4.12, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Sunshine Photo Cart – Client Photo Gallery & Photo Proofing for Photographers to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Brian Sans-Souci (liardom), the sneaky squirrel.
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.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection via 'key' Parameter ≤3.7.4Update to 3.7.5 | CVE-2026-104730 | |
| Medium5.3 | Missing Authorization ≤3.7.4Update to 3.7.5 | CVE-2026-109689 | |
| Medium5.3 | Missing Authorization <3.7.4Update to 3.7.4 | CVE-2026-108069 | |
| High7.5 | Authenticated (Custom Role+) PHP Object Injection ≤3.7.1Update to 3.7.2 | CVE-2026-93617 |
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≤3.7.5Update to 3.8
- Critical9.8Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection via 'key' Parameter
≤3.7.4Update to 3.7.5
- Medium5.3Missing Authorization
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- Medium5.3Missing Authorization
<3.7.4Update to 3.7.4
- High7.5Authenticated (Custom Role+) PHP Object Injection
≤3.7.1Update to 3.7.2
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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