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Paper/Archive/CVE-2025-12981

CVE-2025-12981

dreamstechnologies Listee — Listee <= 1.1.6 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

EPSS 0.6%CVSS 9.8
critical.is priorityof 100
40
CVSS 9.8 (CNA)9.8 / 10 × 3029.4Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 50.4.504 × 2010.1No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: none+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

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.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
Listee≤ 1.1.6–CNA

Scores by source

Wordfence (CNA)9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

refwordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/d534feae-d1b7-4544-b1c5-c23f37dd5bab?source=cverefthemeforest.net/item/listee-classified-ads-wordpress-theme/44526956refthemes.trac.wordpress.org/browser/listee/1.1.5/listee-core/includes/listee-core-users.php#L928reflistee-wp.dreamstechnologies.com/documentation/changelog.html