Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessIdentify site with restricted gallery
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DeliverySend crafted comment-submission request
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ExploitBypass missing access check
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ExecutionInject attacker-chosen content and spoofed author
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ImpactContent stored in restricted gallery
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A08:2025 - Software or Data Integrity Failures
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Data authenticity verification
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| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires that the target site runs Sunshine Photo Cart before 3.7.4 AND has at least one gallery configured as restricted - password-protected, email-gated, private, account-only, or expired - since the flaw is the failure to enforce that same restriction on the comment-submission path. No authentication, credentials, user interaction, or knowledge of the gallery password is needed (PR:N/UI:N), so any default restricted gallery is reachable remotely. Limiting factors: the site must actually use the gallery-restriction feature (public galleries are not the target of this bypass), impact is confined to injecting comment content/metadata (integrity only, no data disclosure or availability loss), and injected comments are subject to whatever moderation the site enforces on display. |
| Impact | This is a genuine but modest-severity integrity flaw, not a critical priority. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) confirms network-reachable, low-complexity, unauthenticated exploitation requiring no user interaction, which aligns with the description of missing authorization on comment submission. However, impact is limited to integrity only (C:N/I:L/A:N), capping the base score at 5.3 (Medium). Multiple signals agree it is low urgency: EPSS is only 0.13% (2nd percentile), it is NOT on CISA KEV, and the SSVC decision framework reports Exploitation: none. The one amplifying signal is SSVC Automatable: yes, consistent with AC:L/PR:N - the injection could be scripted at scale. Publicly available exploit code (WPScan) lowers the barrier, but POC availability is distinct from active exploitation and nothing here indicates in-the-wild use. Net: a real, easily reproducible content-injection/spoofing issue worth patching on a normal cycle, not an emergency. No major conflicts between sources; the chief caveat is that the vendor/product metadata is marked 'unknown' in the CPE. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An unauthenticated attacker identifies a WordPress site running Sunshine Photo Cart with a password-protected, private, or account-only gallery and sends a crafted comment-submission request directly to the image endpoint, bypassing the access gate that is only enforced on display. The attacker supplies a chosen author name, email, and body, injecting spoofed or malicious comment content into galleries they were never permitted to view. Publicly available exploit code from WPScan makes this trivially reproducible and scriptable across many sites. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 14, 2026
Comment injection in Sunshine Photo Cart before 3.7.4 lets unauthenticated remote attackers submit comments to restricted galleries without satisfying the gallery access restriction, spoofing author name and email; the same restriction is enforced when comments are displayed. Publicly available exploit code exists, but EPSS remains low at 0.13% (2nd percentile), and the issue is integrity-only, allowing attacker-chosen comment content and metadata to be stored in password-protected, email-gated, private, account-only, or expired galleries. No CISA KEV active exploitation is indicated, and the flaw is a genuine but modest-severity integrity issue rather than a critical priority.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: 3.7.4. Upgrade Sunshine Photo Cart to version 3.7.4 or later; this is the primary fix and resolves the missing authorization check on the comment-submission path. If immediate upgrading is not possible, disable comment submissions on restricted galleries or temporarily turn off comments for image galleries until the patch can be applied, accepting loss of legitimate feedback; alternatively require authentication for comments, which changes public commenting behavior. A WAF or reverse-proxy rule blocking unauthenticated POSTs to the plugin’s comment-submission endpoint can reduce exposure but may break legitimate comments on public galleries. Enable strict moderation for gallery comments to limit what is displayed, though injected content and metadata may still be stored, so review and delete suspicious comments. Advisory references: https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/db8bf2bf-1c15-4d41-b576-7c30a92a0e37/ and https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-108069.
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Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Sunshine Photo Cart is a WordPress plugin for photo galleries, and the vulnerable code path is comment submission for gallery images. The plugin verifies gallery access permissions when displaying comments but fails to perform the equivalent authorization check before accepting new comment submissions, so a remote unauthenticated attacker can post comment content with arbitrary author name and email into restricted galleries. The supplied CWE is CWE-345 (Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity), reflecting that the plugin does not adequately verify that the submitted comment originates from a visitor entitled to access the target gallery; the CVSS vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N confirms no authentication or user interaction is required and impact is limited to integrity. The CPE entry cpe:2.3:a:unknown:sunshine_photo_cart:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* maps to Sunshine Photo Cart with an unassigned vendor field, and EUVD lists affected versions as 0 through <3.7.4. Although the supplied tags include Code Injection, the described and assessed impact is comment/content injection rather than server-side code execution, data disclosure, or availability loss.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Unauthenticated network request with no UI (PR:N/UI:N/AV:N/AC:L); impact is limited to injecting content into restricted galleries, so I:L with C:N/A:N.
Primary rating from Vendor (WPScan).
CVSS VectorVendor: WPScan
Lifecycle Timeline
4DescriptionCVE.org
The Sunshine Photo Cart WordPress plugin before 3.7.4 does not check whether a visitor is permitted to access a restricted gallery before accepting comment submissions for its images, while it does perform that check when displaying comments, allowing unauthenticated attackers to inject attacker-chosen content with a chosen author name and email into galleries the owner has restricted (password-protected, email-gated, private, account-only or expired).
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Priority Score
Attack Technique
Code injection occurs when an application accepts user input and passes it directly into a language interpreter or evaluator without proper sanitization.
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GHSA-cv48-p447-x477
NVD
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