CVE-2025-12981 PUBLISHED

Listee <= 1.1.6 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 10.11.2025 Published: 27.02.2026 Updated: 27.02.2026

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.

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CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.8

Product Status

Vendor dreamstechnologies
Product Listee
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from * to 1.1.6 (incl.)

Credits

  • Ismail Syaleh finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management CWE