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.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-02-27T06:43:49.771Z

Last Modified :

2026-04-08T17:26:00.860Z

Source :

Wordfence
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-12981 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Dreamstechnologies
  • Listee
Wordpress
  • Wordpress
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-12981.

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