CVE-2026-5193

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 6.5 Medium

Status

Deferred - security@wordfence.com

Published

2026-05-14

Last modified

2026-05-14

Weaknesses

CWE-269

Affected products

• Essential Addons For Elementor Popular Elementor Templates Widgets (Wpdevteam)

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3499726/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/trunk/includes/Traits/Login_Re…
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/22930940-8e2c-446a-954c-90d617f3ca6d?source=cve