Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published May 14, 2026· Updated May 14, 2026
CVE-2026-5193
CVE-2026-5193
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 products
2- Range: <=6.5.13
- Range: <=6.5.13
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
2News mentions
1- Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (April 20, 2026 to April 26, 2026)Wordfence Blog · Apr 30, 2026