Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders, CVE-2026-5193
- CVE, Research URL
- Home page URL
- Application
- 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
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max 6.6.0.
- Status
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vulnerable