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CVE-2025-12981

CRITICAL

9.8

Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published2/27/2026

Last Modified2/27/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-269

References

https://listee-wp.dreamstechnologies.com/documentation/changelog.html(security@wordfence.com)

https://themeforest.net/item/listee-classified-ads-wordpress-theme/44526956(security@wordfence.com)

https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/listee/1.1.5/listee-core/includes/listee-core-users.php#L928(security@wordfence.com)

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d534feae-d1b7-4544-b1c5-c23f37dd5bab?source=cve(security@wordfence.com)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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