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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-03-30 | Published 2026-05-14 | Updated 2026-05-14 | Assigner Wordfence




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

Problem types

CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

Product status

Default status
unaffected

Any version
affected

Timeline

2026-03-23:Discovered
2026-03-30:Vendor Notified
2026-05-13:Disclosed

Credits

Athiwat Tiprasaharn finder

References

www.wordfence.com/...-8e2c-446a-954c-90d617f3ca6d?source=cve

plugins.trac.wordpress.org/.../Traits/Login_Registration.php

cve.org (CVE-2026-5193)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-5193)

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