CVE-2025-12981 - Vulnerability Analysis

Overview

Listee WordPress theme <= 1.1.6 contains a privilege escalation caused by improper sanitization of the user_role parameter in the bundled listee-core plugin's user registration function, letting unauthenticated attackers register as Administrator, exploit requires unauthenticated user registration.

Severity & Score

Impact

Unauthenticated attackers can register as Administrator, gaining full control over the WordPress site.

Mitigation

Update to a version later than 1.1.6 or the latest available version.

References

• https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/listee/1.1.5/listee-core/includes/listee-core-users.php#L928
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d534feae-d1b7-4544-b1c5-c23f37dd5bab?source=cve
• https://listee-wp.dreamstechnologies.com/documentation/changelog.html
• https://themeforest.net/item/listee-classified-ads-wordpress-theme/44526956

Social Media Activity(1 post)

TheHackerWire

@thehackerwire

Feb 27, 2026

🔴 CVE-2025-12981 - Critical (9.8) 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 saniti... 🔗 https://www.thehackerwire.com/vulnerability/CVE-2025-12981/ #CVE #vulnerability #infosec #cybersecurity #security #Tenda #patchstack

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