CVE-2024-12827

critical

Description

The DWT - Directory & Listing WordPress Theme theme for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation via account takeover in all versions up to, and including, 3.3.6. This is due to the plugin not properly checking for an empty token value prior to resetting a user's password through the dwt_listing_reset_password() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to change arbitrary user's passwords, including administrators, and leverage that to gain access to their account.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/51fc7d47-2a0f-4713-9859-120321aa32dc?source=cve

https://themeforest.net/item/dwt-listing-directory-listing-wordpress-theme/21976132

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-06-27

Updated: 2025-06-27

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00055