CVE-2021-24867
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 18% (pctl 97)
Patch early
EPSS 18% — above the 10% action threshold.
Description
Numerous Plugins and Themes from the AccessPress Themes (aka Access Keys) vendor are backdoored due to their website being compromised. Only plugins and themes downloaded via the vendor website are affected, and those hosted on wordpress.org are not. However, all of them were updated or removed to avoid any confusion
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.1) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 18.04% — more likely to be exploited than 97% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-912 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2022-02-21 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (40)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| accesspressthemes | accessbuddy |
| accesspressthemes | accesspress anonymous post |
| accesspressthemes | accesspress basic |
| accesspressthemes | accesspress custom css |
| accesspressthemes | accesspress custom post type |
| accesspressthemes | accesspress ifeeds |
| accesspressthemes | accesspress lite |
| accesspressthemes | accesspress mag |
| accesspressthemes | accesspress parallax |
| accesspressthemes | accesspress ray |
| accesspressthemes | accesspress root |
| accesspressthemes | accesspress social counter |
| accesspressthemes | accesspress social icons |
| accesspressthemes | accesspress social login lite |
| accesspressthemes | accesspress social share |
| accesspressthemes | accesspress staple |
| accesspressthemes | accesspress store |
| accesspressthemes | agency lite |
| accesspressthemes | ap companion |
| accesspressthemes | ap contact form |
| accesspressthemes | ap custom testimonial |
| accesspressthemes | ap mega menu |
| accesspressthemes | ap pricing tables lite |
| accesspressthemes | apex notification bar lite |
| accesspressthemes | aplite |
| accesspressthemes | badge designer lite for woocommerce |
| accesspressthemes | bingle |
| accesspressthemes | bloger |
| accesspressthemes | comments disable - accesspress |
| accesspressthemes | construction lite |
| accesspressthemes | doko |
| accesspressthemes | easy side tab |
| accesspressthemes | enlighten |
| accesspressthemes | everest admin theme lite |
| accesspressthemes | everest coming soon lite |
| accesspressthemes | everest comment rating lite |
| accesspressthemes | everest counter lite |
| accesspressthemes | everest faq manager lite |
| accesspressthemes | everest gallery lite |
| accesspressthemes | everest gplaces business reviews |
References
- https://jetpack.com/2022/01/18/backdoor-found-in-themes-and-plugins-from-accesspress-themes/
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9c76bada-fa32-4c2f-9855-d0efd1e63eff
- https://jetpack.com/2022/01/18/backdoor-found-in-themes-and-plugins-from-accesspress-themes/
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9c76bada-fa32-4c2f-9855-d0efd1e63eff
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