CVE-2022-41996 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in ThemeFusion Avada premium the

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

01What is this vulnerability?

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

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
ThemeFusion	Avada (premium WordPress theme)	<= 7.8.1

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-10-27T16:51:42.567Z
• Last modified: 2025-02-20T19:58:04.580Z

09References

• patchstack.com — https://patchstack.com/database/vulnerability/avada/wordpress-avada-premium-them…
• theme-fusion.com — https://theme-fusion.com/documentation-assets/avada/changelog.txt
• themeforest.net — https://themeforest.net/item/avada-responsive-multipurpose-theme/2833226