CVE-2026-5193

Published: May 14, 2026Modified: Jun 17, 2026Deferred

6.5

Vector

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

Exploitability: 2.8 / Impact: 3.6

Source: security@wordfence.com (Secondary)

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.

Related CWEs

CWE-269

Improper Privilege Management

The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

References (2)

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3499726/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/trunk/includes/Traits/Login_Registration.php

Source: security@wordfence.com

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/22930940-8e2c-446a-954c-90d617f3ca6d?source=cve

Source: security@wordfence.com

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