WordPress Plugin Vulnerabilities

Essential Addons for Elementor < 6.6.0 - Author+ Limited Privilege Escalation via register_user

Description

The plugin is vulnerable to privilege escalation 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.

Affects Plugins

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Classification

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher
Athiwat Tiprasaharn (Jitlada)
Verified
No

Timeline

Publicly Published
2026-05-13 (about 27 days ago)
Added
2026-05-18 (about 21 days ago)
Last Updated
2026-05-18 (about 21 days ago)

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