CVE-2026-5193

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Published 2026-05-14 · Modified 2026-05-14

CVSS v3

6.5

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

CVSS v2

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VIR risk

6.5

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

References

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

CWEs

CWE-269

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.