CVE-2025-5482 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Sunshine Photo Cart plugin for WordPress, affecting all versions up to and including 3.4.11. This flaw allows authenticated users with Subscriber-level access or higher to reset arbitrary user passwords, including administrators, due to insufficient validation of a user-supplied key during the password reset process. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), indicating a severe risk. It can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity and no user interaction, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal, which is typical for the majority of reported vulnerabilities.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 3.4.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:sunshinephotocart:sunshine_photo_cart:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.