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.
CVE-2026-5193 is a medium severity with CVSS 6.5 Privilege Escalation issue affecting the Plugin Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets. It affects Versions up to 6.5.13 and is fixed in 6.6.0.
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CVE-2026-5193 is tracked for the Plugin Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets as medium severity with CVSS 6.5. The affected range is Versions up to 6.5.13. Update Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets to 6.6.0 or newer where that version is compatible with the site.
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| Software Type | Plugin |
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| Software Slug |
essential-addons-for-elementor-lite
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| CVE | CVE-2026-5193 |
| Patched Versions |
6.6.0
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| Affected Versions |
Versions up to 6.5.13
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Essential Addons for Elementor <= 5.7.1 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Password Reset to Privilege Escalation
Essential Addons for Elementor <= 5.0.4 - Local File Inclusion
Essential Addons for Elementor <= 5.9.13 - Authenticated (Author+) PHP Object Injection via error_resetpassword
Essential Addons for Elementor <= 5.8.8 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation
Essential Addons for Elementor <= 4.6.4 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Privilege Escalation
Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Addon, Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders <= 6.0.9 - Authenticated (Author+) Sensitive Information Exposure to Privilege Escalation
Essential Addons for Elementor – Best Elementor Templates, Widgets, Kits & WooCommerce Builders <= 5.9.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Event Calendar
Essential Addons for Elementor <= 6.5.9 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Info Box Widget
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