What is CVE-2025-5482?

CVE-2025-5482 is a high-severity vulnerability in Sunshinephotocart Sunshine Photo Cart, classified under CWE-620. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2025-06-04.

How severe is CVE-2025-5482?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Sunshinephotocart Sunshine Photo Cart

CVE-2025-5482

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.

Published 2025-06-04 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (44.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 45th percentile — 44.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.006 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-620

References

www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/5311b43c-14dd-4bdd-b6d0-d6468… (Third Party Advisory)
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sunshine-photo-cart/trunk/includes/functions… (Product)
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset (Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-5482?: CVE-2025-5482 is a high-severity vulnerability in Sunshinephotocart Sunshine Photo Cart, classified under CWE-620. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2025-06-04.
How severe is CVE-2025-5482?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.