FKIE_CVE-2025-12981

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-02-27 07:17 - Updated: 2026-02-27 14:06
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
security@wordfence.comhttps://listee-wp.dreamstechnologies.com/documentation/changelog.html
security@wordfence.comhttps://themeforest.net/item/listee-classified-ads-wordpress-theme/44526956
security@wordfence.comhttps://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/listee/1.1.5/listee-core/includes/listee-core-users.php#L928
security@wordfence.comhttps://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d534feae-d1b7-4544-b1c5-c23f37dd5bab?source=cve
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  "lastModified": "2026-02-27T14:06:37.987",
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