# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 10 Oct 2026
- **Updated:** 11 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-w965-5f2v-mxvm

## 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 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## 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.

## Is CVE-2026-97340 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-97340 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

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Check this codebase for CVE-2026-97340 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-97340 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: ThemeFusion Avada | Website Builder For WordPress & WooCommerce. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-97340/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-97340/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-97340
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-97340
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-97340

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-97340/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.