vulnerability
WordPress Plugin: accesspress-anonymous-post: CVE-2021-24867: Hidden Functionality
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Oct 13, 2021 | May 15, 2025 | Apr 29, 2026 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Oct 13, 2021
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 29, 2026
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
Solution
accesspress-anonymous-post-plugin-cve-2021-24867
References
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24867
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/415ace14-1687-4003-b385-a21a5d5e16a7?source=api-prod
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2021-11779
- CVE-2021-24867
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2021-24867
- CWE-912
- EUVD-EUVD-2021-11779
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