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GHSA-XR97-92R9-J322

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-05-14 09:31 – Updated: 2026-05-14 09:31

Details

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.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


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

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CVE-2026-5193 (GCVE-0-2026-5193)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-14 06:44 – Updated: 2026-05-14 10:45

Title

Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets <= 6.5.13 - Authenticated (Author+) Limited Privilege Escalation via register_user

Summary

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-05-14 10:40 UTC

CWE

CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

Assigner

Wordfence CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 65/100 over 2183 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabil…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3499…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
wpdevteam	Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets	Affected: 0 , ≤ 6.5.13 (semver)

Credits

Athiwat Tiprasaharn

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