Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-97670 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-97670 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-97670?
- Critical severity, with a CVSS score of 9.1, published 10 October 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- ThemeFusion Avada (Fusion) Builder up to and including 7.16.1.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-97670?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-97670 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a web application.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-97670?
- Check whether you run ThemeFusion Avada (Fusion) Builder at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
The plugin fails to properly validate authorization when dispatching WordPress action hooks whose names are sourced from untrusted form data (email_message placeholders and {action_hook,...} dynamic-data tokens). The authorization check inspects only $_POST['args'] and $_GET['args'], but the public form-submit endpoint parses $_POST['formData'], bypassing the check entirely. An unauthenticated attacker can invoke multiple arbitrary hooks per request, triggering actions like wp_scheduled_delete to permanently destroy posts, pages, and comments, or other hooks to cause DoS or data exposure.
Affected products
- ThemeFusion Avada Fusion Builder up to and including 7.16.1
Timeline
- 2026-10-10: disclosed