CVE-2026-5193 Privilege escalation in Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets
Authenticated authors can escalate privileges to editor via insufficient role validation in the register_user function.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-5193?
CVE-2026-5193 is a medium-severity vulnerability in wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets, published on 14 May 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-269
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-5193?
How do I fix CVE-2026-5193?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-5193 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2026-5193 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-5193 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xr97-92r9-j322.