CVE-2026-5193

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

Published May 14, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

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History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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First Time appeared Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Wpdevteam
Wpdevteam essential Addons For Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets
Vendors & Products Wordpress
Wordpress wordpress
Wpdevteam
Wpdevteam essential Addons For Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets
Type Values Removed Values Added
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.
Title Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets <= 6.5.13 - Authenticated (Author+) Limited Privilege Escalation via register_user
Weaknesses CWE-269
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N'}

Weaknesses

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Wordfence
Published
Updated
May 14, 2026, 10:45 AM
Reserved
Mar 30, 2026, 9:18 PM
Status
Deferred
Published
May 14, 2026, 7:16 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 10:58 AM