Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Feb 27, 2026· Updated Apr 15, 2026
CVE-2025-12981
CVE-2025-12981
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.
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Affected products
2- Range: <=1.1.6
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
4- listee-wp.dreamstechnologies.com/documentation/changelog.htmlnvd
- themeforest.net/item/listee-classified-ads-wordpress-theme/44526956nvd
- themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/listee/1.1.5/listee-core/includes/listee-core-users.phpnvd
- www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d534feae-d1b7-4544-b1c5-c23f37dd5babnvd
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