CVE-2025-12981

Listee <= 1.1.6 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

CVSS 9.8 CRITICALEPSS 0.6%CWE-269

Vexday Risk Score

28Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 9.8EPSS 0.6%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

27 Feb 2026Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

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

Affected products

dreamstechnologies · Listee

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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