Vulnerability in Accesspress Themes Accessbuddy
CVE-2021-24867
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
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CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.180 (97.1th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 97.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.189 · newest: 0.180 · change: -0.008
Affected products
- Accesspress Themes Accessbuddy — versions 1.0.0
- Accesspress Themes Basic — versions 3.2.1
- Accesspress Themes Custom CSS — versions 2.0.1, 2.0.2
- Accesspress Themes Custom Post Type — versions 1.0.8, 1.0.9
- Accesspress Themes Ifeeds — versions 4.0.3, 4.0.4
- Accesspress Themes Lite — versions 2.92
- Accesspress Themes Mag — versions 2.6.5
- Accesspress Themes Parallax — versions 4.5
- Accesspress Themes Accesspress-Ray — versions 1.19.5
- Accesspress Themes Root — versions 2.5
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- wpscan.com/vulnerability/9c76bada-fa32-4c2f-9855-d0efd1e63eff (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
- jetpack.com/2022/01/18/backdoor-found-in-themes-and-plugins-from-accesspress-th… (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2021-24867?
- CVE-2021-24867 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Accesspress Themes Accessbuddy, classified under Hidden Functionality. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2022-02-21.
- How severe is CVE-2021-24867?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2021-24867 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.