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Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders, CVE-2026-5193

CVE, Research URL

CVE-2026-5193

Published on
May 14, 2026
Research 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.
Affected versions
max 6.6.0.
Status
vulnerable