CVE-2026-5193

medium

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.

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/22930940-8e2c-446a-954c-90d617f3ca6d?source=cve

https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3499726/essential-addons-for-elementor-lite/trunk/includes/Traits/Login_Registration.php

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-14

Updated: 2026-05-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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

Severity: Medium