CVE-2021-24867

critical

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

References

https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/9c76bada-fa32-4c2f-9855-d0efd1e63eff

https://jetpack.com/2022/01/18/backdoor-found-in-themes-and-plugins-from-accesspress-themes/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-02-21

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.18878