meFusion Avada up to 7.16.1 on WordPress Author Page get_markup cross site scripting

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A vulnerability was found in meFusion Avada up to 7.16.1. It has been rated as problematic. This affects the function Fusion_Social_Icon::get_markup of the component Author Page. The manipulation of the argument author_facebook/author_twitter/author_linkedin/author_dribble/author_whatsapp/author_email leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-97340. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in meFusion Avada up to 7.16.1. This issue affects the function Fusion_Social_Icon::get_markup of the component Author Page. The manipulation of the argument author_facebook/author_twitter/author_linkedin/author_dribble/author_whatsapp/author_email with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

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).

It is possible to read the advisory at wordfence.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-97340 since 09/24/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-96288). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• meFusion

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• Avada

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• 7.16.0
• 7.16.1

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