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GHSA-WG85-QJWX-MPXX

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-02-27 09:30 – Updated: 2026-02-27 09:30

Details

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.

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical)


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

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CVE-2025-12981 (GCVE-0-2025-12981)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-27 06:43 – Updated: 2026-02-27 18:47

Title

Listee <= 1.1.6 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Summary

Severity ?

9.8 (Critical)


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

CWE

CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

Assigner

Wordfence

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
	https://themeforest.net/item/listee-classified-ad…
	https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/listee/…
	https://listee-wp.dreamstechnologies.com/document…

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	dreamstechnologies	Listee	Affected: * , ≤ 1.1.6 (semver)

Credits

Ismail Syaleh

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GHSA-WG85-QJWX-MPXX

CVE-2025-12981 (GCVE-0-2025-12981)

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