CVE-2025-12981CRITICAL 9.8EPSS p42.9%
CVE-2025-12981CVE-2025-12981
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.
Scoring
| CVSS 3.1 | 9.8 (CRITICAL) |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.57% probability of exploitation · percentile 42.9% · 2026-06-18T12:00:27Z |
| Published | 2026-02-27 |
| Last modified | 2026-04-15 |
Underlying weaknesses· 1
References
- 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
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| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Improper Privilege Managementcwe-269 | 0% | live |
Related by meaning· 6
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