CVE-2025-12981

Impact

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 packages

This record carries no package version data, so it cannot be matched against a dependency list automatically. Read the advisory and compare your version by hand.

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• 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