Findings

CVE-2025-12981

The Listee theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 1.1.6.

Published Feb 27, 2026 · updated Jun 17, 2026

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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  1. Feb 27, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Detected

    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 dur

  2. Jun 17, 2026 · NIST NVD

    Updated

    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 dur

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2025-12981

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2025-12981

    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

    nvd.nist.gov

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