CVE-2025-12981 | The Listee theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege es… | CVSS 9.8 CRITICAL

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.

Metadata

CVE ID: CVE-2025-12981
State: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 2025-11-10 19:25 UTC
Published: 2026-02-27 06:43 UTC
Last updated: 2026-04-08 17:26 UTC
Primary CWE: CWE-269
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
Vendor / Product: dreamstechnologies / Listee
Sources: cve.org · NVD

Severity & Metrics

9.8 CRITICAL CVSS 3.1

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

SSVC — CISA Coordinator

Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Tech. Impact: total

Affected products (1)

Vendor	Product	Platform	Versions
dreamstechnologies	Listee	—	0 ≤ 1.1.6

Weakness (CWE)

CWE	Source	Description
CWE-269	cna	CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

CVSS scores (1)

Score	Severity	Version	Source	Vector
9.8	CRITICAL	3.1	cna	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (4)