WordPress theme
Listee <= 1.1.6 — Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation
CVE-2025-12981Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.1.6Update to 1.1.7 or newer
All remediation stepsCritical9.8CVSS 3.19.8CISA KEVNot listedAccessNo account needed
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Overview
- Advisory ID
- CVE-2025-12981
- Product
- Listee listee
- Affected
- ≤1.1.6
- Fixed in
- 1.1.7
- Weakness
- CWE-269 Privilege Escalation
- Required access
- No account needed
- Published
- · updated
- Credit
- シルAsuna
- Source
- Wordfence Intelligence
- Affected≤ 1.1.6
- Patched in1.1.7
Update to 1.1.7 or newer.
9.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
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.
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Remediation & mitigations
- Update to version 1.1.7, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
References & provenance
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Timeline
CVE published
Severity critical, CVSS 9.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.