CVE-2026-5193 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: Wordfence
Reserved: 30.03.2026 Published: 14.05.2026 Updated: 14.05.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 6.5

Product Status

Vendor wpdevteam
Product Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 6.5.13 (incl.)

Credits

  • Athiwat Tiprasaharn finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management CWE