Vulnerability · CVE-2026-97340
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…
Published Oct 13, 2026 · the affected product
Check if you run it
No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2026-97340. EPSS is 0.16%. Act only if a listed version of the affected product is installed.
Gaps on this record
- No plain product name is stored. The page cannot tell you which product to check.
- No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
- Severity
- Medium—
- Known exploitation
- Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
- EPSS
- 0.16%
- Remediation
- Version ranges on file
- Affected products
- stated named in the record
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 aut
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Enter the version you run. The result uses only the ranges stored on this record.
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- stated named in the record<= 7.16.1
How to fix CVE-2026-97340
Recommended remediation
Affected version ranges suggest a fixed boundary. Verify against the vendor advisory for your release.
Official advisories
What to do
Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.
Should you patch?
No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2026-97340. EPSS is 0.16%. Act only if a listed version of the affected product is installed.
Which versions are affected?
Compare what you have installed with named in the record <= 7.16.1. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.
What should an analyst verify?
No weakness class is stored. EPSS 0.16%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.
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Code
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Timeline
Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.
Oct 13, 2026 · Tenable CVE Database
Detected
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 an
Sources
- CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2026-97340
Official CVE identifier
cve.org - FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2026-97340
30-day exploitation probability 0.2%
first.org - Tenable CVE DatabaseVulnerability recordCVE-2026-97340
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 an
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Freshness
Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.