CVE-2026-5193: Wpdevteam Essential Addons For Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Wpdevteam Essential Addons For Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets: up to and including 6.5.13

Published 2026-05-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.