🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2026-5193

MEDIUM 6.5

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

CVSS Score
6.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

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.

CWE CWE-269
Vendor wpdevteam
Product essential addons for elementor – popular elementor templates & widgets
Published May 14, 2026
Stay Ahead of the Next One

Get instant alerts for wpdevteam essential addons for elementor – popular elementor templates & widgets

Be the first to know when new medium vulnerabilities affecting wpdevteam essential addons for elementor – popular elementor templates & widgets are published — delivered to Slack, Telegram or Discord.

Get Free Alerts → Free · No credit card · 60 sec setup

CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability

Affected Versions

wpdevteam / Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets
0 ≤ 6.5.13

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
wordfence.com: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/22930940-8e2c-446a-954c-90d617f3ca6d?source=cve plugins.trac.wordpress.org: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3499726/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/trunk/includes/Traits/Login_Registration.php

Credits

Athiwat Tiprasaharn