Critical Avada WordPress theme flaw enables zero-click RCE

BleepingComputer by Bill Toulas 27 August 2026, 00:33 EEST Security Hosting WordPress

A critical vulnerability chain in the popular Avada theme for WordPress can be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary PHP code on the server.

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