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CVE-2026-5193 — Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets [essential-addons-for-elementor-lite] < 6.6.0

CVE Vulnerability Type Severity Affected Fixed in Published Status
CVE-2026-5193 Essential Addons for Elementor – Popular Elementor Templates & Widgets [essential-addons-for-elementor-lite] < 6.6.0 Improper Privilege Management Medium 6.5 < 6.6.0 6.6.0 2026-05-13 —

CVE-2026-5193

The Essential Addons for Elementor plugin, up to version 6.5.13, is susceptible to privilege escalation due to inadequate role validation in the 'register_user' function. Authenticated attackers with author-level access or higher can exploit this flaw to create new user accounts with elevated editor privileges.

Based on public CVE data (MITRE/NVD).

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