CVE-2026-5193
🔶 mediumSummary
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.
CVSS Score
6.5
Medium
EPSS Score
0.0
Exploit Probability
Published Date
2026-05-14
First Seen: 2026-05-17
📊 Relative Risk Intelligence
This CVE is Lower Risk - more severe than 46.8% of all 349,016 vulnerabilities in our database.
#185,675
Below average severity
Severity Percentile
🎯 CISA SSVC Assessment Updated: May 14, 2026
🔍 Exploitation Status
None
No known exploits
⚙️ Automatable
NO
Requires human interaction
💥 Technical Impact
Partial
Limited system impact
🏆 Discovered By
Athiwat Tiprasaharn
SSVC data provided by
CISA
Last Modified
2026-05-14
Source
NVD 🔗
CVSS Vector 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE IDs (Weakness Types)