CVSS 3.1
9.8 criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-24867
Critical (9.8) in accesspressthemes. EPSS 18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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
Severity
- EPSS
- 18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 97% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-912
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- 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
- accesspressthemes:everest_review_lite
- accesspressthemes:everest_tab_lite
- accesspressthemes:everest_timeline_lite
- accesspressthemes:fashstore
- accesspressthemes:form_store_to_db
- accesspressthemes:fotography
- accesspressthemes:gaga_corp
- accesspressthemes:gaga_lite
- accesspressthemes:inline_call_to_action_builder_lite
- accesspressthemes:mcontact_button
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