CVE-2026-97340 Cross-site scripting in Avada | Website Builder For WordPress & WooCommerce
Authenticated attackers can inject scripts via user profile fields, executing code when victims click social icons on author pages.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-97340?
CVE-2026-97340 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in ThemeFusion Avada | Website Builder For WordPress & WooCommerce, published on 10 Oct 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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).
Weakness: CWE-79
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-97340?
How do I fix CVE-2026-97340?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-97340 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.
Is CVE-2026-97340 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-97340 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-w965-5f2v-mxvm.