CVE-2026-5193

Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets <= 6.5.13 - Authenticated (Author+) Limited Privilege Escalation via register_user

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
May 14, 2026
Updated
May 14, 2026
Reserved
Mar 30, 2026

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Description

The Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all versions up to, and including, 6.5.13. This is due to insufficient role validation in the 'register_user' function, which only blocks the 'administrator' role. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with author level access and above, to create new user accounts with elevated privileges such as editor.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NWordfence

Weaknesses

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgetswpdevteam
  • 6.5.13 and earlierAffected

References

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