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CVE-2026-5193: The Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to...

MEDIUM CVSS 6.5 Exploit Available

Published: May 14, 2026 | Last Modified: May 14, 2026

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.

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