Avada | Website Builder For WordPress & WooCommerce <= 7.16.1 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
The Avada | Website Builder For WordPress & WooCommerce theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 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 profile fields through the user_contactmethods filter and outputs them on the author archive within an anchor href attribute using only esc_attr() inside Fusion_Social_Icon::get_markup(). Because esc_attr() escapes HTML characters but does not validate URL schemes, it allows dangerous protocols such as javascript:. Authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access or higher can inject arbitrary scripts that execute when a user visits the author page and clicks the crafted social icon. Exploitation requires user interaction (clicking the link) and requires the site setting 'Open Social Icons in a New Window' to be set to Off so the browser does not prevent the javascript: URL from executing.
What to do
Update Avada to version 7.16.2 or later.
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| Platform | Package | Vulnerable versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| WordPress theme | Avada | Website Builder For WordPress & WooCommerce | <= 7.16.1 | 7.16.2 |
References
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
CWE-79- Platform
- WordPress
- Package
Avada | Website Builder For WordPress & WooCommerce- Disclosed
- 09.10.2026
- Updated
- 12.10.2026 12:03
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Vulnerability history: Avada | Website Builder For WordPress & WooCommerce
All published vulnerabilities of this package (WordPress theme), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.
- Total entries
- 26
- First → latest
- 04.2017 10.2026
- Without a fix
- 0
- Exploited in attacks
- 0
Severity breakdown
- Critical 1
- High 10
- Medium 15
Disclosures per year
- 2017: 2
- 2018: 0
- 2019: 0
- 2020: 1
- 2021: 2
- 2022: 2
- 2023: 4
- 2024: 7
- 2025: 3
- 2026: 5
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