CVE-2021-24867
Numerous Plugins and Themes from the AccessPress Themes (aka Access Keys) vendor are backdoored due to their website being compromised.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 18.0%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
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
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 18.04% probability · 97th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-912
- 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 · +40 more
- Source
- contact@wpscan.com
EPSS 18.0% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://jetpack.com/2022/01/18/backdoor-found-in-themes-and-plugins-from-accesspress-themes/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9c76bada-fa32-4c2f-9855-d0efd1e63effExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://jetpack.com/2022/01/18/backdoor-found-in-themes-and-plugins-from-accesspress-themes/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9c76bada-fa32-4c2f-9855-d0efd1e63effExploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.