What is CVE-2026-5193?

CVE-2026-5193 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wpdevteam Essential Addons For Elementor – Popular Templates & Widgets, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2026-05-14.

How severe is CVE-2026-5193?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Wpdevteam Essential Addons For Elementor – Popular Templates & Widgets

CVE-2026-5193

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.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

EPSS: 0.002 (14.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Wpdevteam Essential Addons For Elementor – Popular Templates & Widgets — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-269 — Improper Privilege Management

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-5193?: CVE-2026-5193 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wpdevteam Essential Addons For Elementor – Popular Templates & Widgets, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2026-05-14.
How severe is CVE-2026-5193?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.