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: 2026-05-14
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Thu, 14 May 2026 12:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

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


Thu, 14 May 2026 10:15:00 +0000

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Vendors & Products Wordpress
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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.
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'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Wordfence

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-14T10:45:23.691Z

Reserved: 2026-03-30T21:18:50.734Z

Link: CVE-2026-5193

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-05-14T10:45:19.161Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-05-14T07:16:19.977

Modified: 2026-05-14T14:28:41.283

Link: CVE-2026-5193

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-14T10:00:12Z

Weaknesses