CVE-2022-41996

WordPress Avada premium theme <= 7.8.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

Severity Score

8.8

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

Track*

*SSVC

Descriptions

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in ThemeFusion Avada premium theme versions <= 7.8.1 on WordPress leading to arbitrary plugin installation/activation.

Vulnerabilidad de Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) en el tema premium del ThemeFusion Avada en versiones <= 7.8.1 en WordPress, lo que provoca la instalación/activación arbitraria de complementos.

The Avada theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request forgery in versions up to, and including, 7.8.1 in class-avada-admin.php. This allows unauthenticated attackers to perform actions on behalf of an administrator if they can trick that administrator into performing an action, such as clicking a link.

*Credits: Vulnerability discovered by Dave Jong (Patchstack)

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Complete

Integrity

Complete

Availability

Complete

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:Track*

Exploitation

None

Automatable

Tech. Impact

Total

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2022-09-21 CVE Published
2022-10-19 CVE Reserved
2025-02-20 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CAPEC

References (3)

URL	Tag	Source
https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/avada/wordpress-avada-premium-theme-7-8-1-cross-site-request-forgery-csrf-vulnerability?_s_id=cve	Third Party Advisory
https://themeforest.net/item/avada-responsive-multipurpose-theme/2833226	Product

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://theme-fusion.com/documentation-assets/avada/changelog.txt	2022-11-01

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Theme-fusion Search vendor "Theme-fusion"		Avada Search vendor "Theme-fusion" for product "Avada"				<= 7.8.1 Search vendor "Theme-fusion" for product "Avada" and version " <= 7.8.1"		wordpress		Affected