{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-5193 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2026-5193 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2026-5193 is a medium-severity vulnerability in wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates \u0026 Widgets, published on 14 May 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-5193 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-5193 is a medium-severity vulnerability in wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates \u0026 Widgets, published on 14 May 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-5193 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: wpdevteam Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates \u0026 Widgets. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-5193/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-5193/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-5193","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-5193/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-5193","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-xr97-92r9-j322"],"analysis":{"component_type":"cms_plugin","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"WordPress plugin","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Authenticated authors can escalate privileges to editor via insufficient role validation in the register_user function.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"Wordfence","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":6.5,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-269","name":"Improper Privilege Management"}],"description":"The Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates \u0026 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.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Privilege escalation in Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates \u0026 Widgets","id":"CVE-2026-5193","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"wolfSSL ECDSA Certificate Verification","id":"CVE-2026-5194"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Path traversal in Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form \u0026 Custom Form Builder","id":"CVE-2026-5192"},"products":["Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates \u0026 Widgets"],"published":"2026-05-14","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-05-14","vendors":["wpdevteam"]},"summary":"Authenticated authors can escalate privileges to editor via insufficient role validation in the register_user function.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-5193/"}