Avada | Website Builder For WordPress & WooCommerce <= 7.16.1 — Authenticated (Subscriber+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'author_facebook' User Profile Field
CVE-2026-97340Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤7.16.1Update to 7.16.2 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.4
- CVSS
- 6.4CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:LPrivileges required- Low
UI:NUser interaction- None
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
- Required access
- Unknown
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- 0.2% chance in 30 days4th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
Avada | Website Builder For WordPress & WooCommerce Avada
- Affected≤ 7.16.1
- Patched in7.16.2
Update to 7.16.2 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 7.16.1. Version 7.16.2 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Avada | Website Builder For WordPress & WooCommerce.
- No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
What to do
- Update to version 7.16.2, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Avada | Website Builder For WordPress & WooCommerce to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Muhamad Visat.
The Avada | Website Builder For WordPress & WooCommerce theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the user profile 'Author Page' social link contact-method fields (author_facebook, author_twitter, author_linkedin, author_dribble, author_whatsapp, author_email) in versions up to, and including, 7.16.1. Avada registers these fields through the user_contactmethods filter and, on the author archive, emits them inside an anchor href using only esc_attr() in Fusion_Social_Icon::get_markup(), which escapes HTML metacharacters but does not reject dangerous URL schemes such as javascript:. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses their author page and clicks the injected social icon (a click is required, and the site must have 'Open Social Icons in a New Window' set to Off so the browser doesn't block the javascript: URL from opening in a new tab).
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.4
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
- CVE® identifiers
- [object Object]. 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.
- EPSS
- Exploit Prediction Scoring System by FIRST.org.
- VulnCrest content
- Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.