CVE-2025-12981 — Listee <= 1.1.6 - Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
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-…
Published: 2026-02-27 · CVSS: 9.8 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7