CVE-2025-12981

CRITICAL 9.8 CVSS 3.1

Published: February 27, 2026
Last modified: June 17, 2026
NVD status: Deferred
Reported by: security@wordfence.com
Weakness: CWE-269
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Affected products and versions

dreamstechnologies Listee — Up to and including 1.1.6

References

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

WordPress CVEs

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Affected products and versions

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