CVE-2025-12981

The Listee theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.6. This is due to a broken validation check in the bundled listee-core plugin's user registration function that fails to properly sanitize the user_role parameter. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to register as Administrator by manipulating the user_role parameter during registration.

CVSS v3 9.8 CRITICAL

9.8^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://listee-wp.dreamstechnologies.com/documentation/changelog.html
https://themeforest.net/item/listee-classified-ads-wordpress-theme/44526956
https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/listee/1.1.5/listee-core/includes/listee-core-users.php#L928
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d534feae-d1b7-4544-b1c5-c23f37dd5bab?source=cve

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-02-27 07:17

Updated : 2026-02-27 14:06

NVD link : CVE-2025-12981

Mitre link : CVE-2025-12981

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-12981

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management

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