CVE-2024-43136: WordPress Sunshine Photo Cart plugin <= 3.2.1 - Broken Access Control vulnerability
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 35/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.43% (FIRST EPSS).
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- Fixed version: sunshinephotocart Sunshine Photo Cart 3.2.2.
- Severity is disputed: the assigning authority (CNA) scores it 4.3, NVD 8.8.
- Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).
Low priority for now. Upgrade to sunshinephotocart Sunshine Photo Cart 3.2.2 or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
Missing Authorization vulnerability in sunshinephotocart Sunshine Photo Cart sunshine-photo-cart.This issue affects Sunshine Photo Cart: from n/a through <= 3.2.1.
- Published
- Nov 1, 2024
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.4% · 38th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-862
Report tools
Action score
35
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 35 / 40 · 8.8 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.4%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- 8.8
- CNA · Patchstack
- 4.3
- 4.5 point gap
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| sunshinephotocart | sunshine photo cart | cpe:2.3:a:sunshinephotocart:sunshine_photo_cart |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- sunshinephotocart sunshine photo cartbefore 3.2.2
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Patchstack). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
sunshinephotocart Sunshine Photo Cart
- up to and including 3.2.1affectedfixed in 3.2.2
Same product
sunshinephotocart: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2025-31084WordPress Sunshine Photo Cart plugin <= 3.4.10 - PHP Object Injection Vulnerability39Monitor
- CVE-2024-44038WordPress Sunshine Photo Cart plugin <= 3.2.9 - Broken Access Control vulnerability39Monitor
- CVE-2024-30221WordPress Sunshine Photo Cart plugin <= 3.1.1 - PHP Object Injection vulnerability39Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2024-43971Sep 17, 2024 · WordPress Sunshine Photo Cart plugin <= 3.2.5 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability24Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2024-50463Oct 28, 2024 · WordPress Sunshine Photo Cart plugin <= 3.2.9 - Open Redirection vulnerability24Monitor
- Later →CVE-2024-47314Nov 1, 2024 · WordPress Sunshine Photo Cart plugin <= 3.2.8 - Broken Access Control vulnerability35Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| sunshinephotocart Sunshine Photo Cart | 3.2.2 | Vendor (CNA) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
- Manab Jyoti DowarahPatchstack Bug Bounty Programfinder
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
- CVE-2024-440380 days apartWordPress Sunshine Photo Cart plugin <= 3.2.9 - Broken Access Control vulnerability39Monitor
- CVE-2024-473140 days apartWordPress Sunshine Photo Cart plugin <= 3.2.8 - Broken Access Control vulnerability35Monitor
- CVE-2025-67973476 days apartWordPress Sunshine Photo Cart plugin <= 3.5.6.2 - Broken Access Control vulnerability26Monitor
- CVE-2022-4582642 days apartWordPress Sunshine Photo Cart plugin <= 2.9.13 - Auth. Broken Access Control vulnerability21Monitor
- CVE-2025-62892360 days apartWordPress Sunshine Photo Cart plugin <= 3.5.3 - Broken Access Control vulnerability21Monitor
- CVE-2026-24994459 days apartWordPress Sunshine Photo Cart plugin <= 3.5.7.2 - Broken Access Control vulnerability21Monitor
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)
Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.
- TR-24-1805 · Nov 4, 2024(WordPress Eklenti Güvenlik Bildirimi)
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- A low-privileged account is enough.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-862 · Missing AuthorizationCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-primary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.