Listee <= 1.1.6 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Improper Privilege Management
CVE CVE-2025-12981
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published February 26, 2026
Last Updated February 27, 2026
Researcher シルAsuna
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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Theme
Software Slug listee (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 1.1.6
Patched Version
  • 1.1.7
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