{"id":"CVE-2021-24867","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2021-24867","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:51:37.780Z","title":"Numerous Plugins and Themes from the AccessPress Themes (aka Access Keys) vendor are backdoored due to their website being compromised.","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","published":"2022-02-21T11:15:08.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:41:02.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"contact@wpscan.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["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","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","accesspressthemes/one-paze","accesspressthemes/parallax blog","accesspressthemes/parallaxsome","accesspressthemes/pi button","accesspressthemes/product slider for woocommerce lite","accesspressthemes/punte","accesspressthemes/revolve","accesspressthemes/ripple","accesspressthemes/scrollme","accesspressthemes/smart logo showcase lite"],"epss":{"score":0.18044,"percentile":0.97173,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"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."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://jetpack.com/2022/01/18/backdoor-found-in-themes-and-plugins-from-accesspress-themes/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"contact@wpscan.com"},{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9c76bada-fa32-4c2f-9855-d0efd1e63eff","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"contact@wpscan.com"},{"url":"https://jetpack.com/2022/01/18/backdoor-found-in-themes-and-plugins-from-accesspress-themes/","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9c76bada-fa32-4c2f-9855-d0efd1e63eff","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24867","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}