WordPress theme
Avada <= 7.8.1 — Cross-Site Request Forgery
CVE-2022-41996Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤7.8.1Update to 7.8.2 or newer
All remediation stepsHigh8.8CVSS 3.18.8CISA KEVNot listedAccessNo account needed
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Overview
- Advisory ID
- CVE-2022-41996
- Product
- Avada | Website Builder For WordPress & WooCommerce Avada
- Affected
- ≤7.8.1
- Fixed in
- 7.8.2
- Weakness
- CWE-352 CSRF
- Required access
- No account needed
- Published
- · updated
- Credit
- Dave Jong
- Source
- Wordfence Intelligence
- Affected≤ 7.8.1
- Patched in7.8.2
Update to 7.8.2 or newer.
8.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
The Avada theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request forgery in versions up to, and including, 7.8.1 in class-avada-admin.php. This allows unauthenticated attackers to perform actions on behalf of an administrator if they can trick that administrator into performing an action, such as clicking a link.
Not sure which version you run? Run a passive check — it reads public files only.
Remediation & mitigations
- Update to version 7.8.2, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
References & provenance
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
- 8.1CVE-2026-115346Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via Avada Form Upload Field
- 6.4CVE-2026-97340Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'author_facebook' User Profile Field
- 6.1CVE-2026-84925Reflected Cross-Site Scripting via 'lang' Parameter
- 9.8CVE-2026-18431Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution via Arbitrary File Write
- 7.5CVE-2026-12256Authenticated (Contributor+) PHP Object Injection
Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.8
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
- CVSS / CWE
- National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.