DWT - Directory & Listing WordPress Theme <= 3.3.6 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary User Password Reset

Unverified Password Change
CVE CVE-2024-12827
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published June 26, 2025
Last Updated June 27, 2025
Researcher Lucio Sá
Description

The DWT - Directory & Listing WordPress Theme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.6. This is due to the plugin not properly checking for an empty token value prior to resetting a user's password through the dwt_listing_reset_password() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug dwt-listing (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 3.3.6
Patched Version
  • 3.3.7
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