WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Essential Addons for Elementor 6.6.0 - 6.8.7 - Author+ Privilege Escalation via register_user_role

Description

The plugin does not correctly restrict who may set the role assigned to accounts created through its registration form, allowing authenticated users with Author-level access and above to cause newly registered accounts, including those created by unauthenticated visitors through the public registration form, to be granted a higher role such as Editor.
This is an incomplete fix of CVE-2026-5193: the role-validation control added in 6.6.0 can be circumvented by a lower-privileged user, so versions 6.6.0 through 6.8.7 remain affected even on sites that are patched against that advisory.

Proof of Concept

Affects Plugins

References

Classification

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Adam Kahlon
Submitter
Adam Kahlon
Submitter website
Verified
Yes

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-10-29 (about 2 days ago)
Added
2026-10-29 (about 1 day ago)
Last Updated
2026-10-29 (about 1 day ago)

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