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CVE-2021-24867: Backdoored Plugins & Themes from AccessPress Themes

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Plan (action score 44/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 18% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 97.2% of all records.
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: AccessPress Themes Pricing Table Builder – AP Pricing Tables Lite 1.1.3.
  • Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Add it to your regular patch cycle. Upgrade to AccessPress Themes Pricing Table Builder – AP Pricing Tables Lite 1.1.3 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

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

CriticalCVSS 9.8 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Feb 21, 2022
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
18.0% · 97th percentile

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Action score

44

Plan

Add it to your regular patch cycle.

CVSS
39 / 40 · 9.8 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
5 / 30 · 18.0%

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Affected systems

Is your version affected?

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VendorProduct
accesspressthemesaccessbuddy
accesspressthemesaccesspress anonymous post
accesspressthemesaccesspress basic
accesspressthemesaccesspress custom css
accesspressthemesaccesspress custom post type
accesspressthemesaccesspress ifeeds
accesspressthemesaccesspress lite
accesspressthemesaccesspress mag
accesspressthemesaccesspress parallax
accesspressthemesaccesspress ray
accesspressthemesaccesspress root
accesspressthemesaccesspress social counter

and 81 more

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • accesspressthemes accessbuddy1.0.0
  • accesspressthemes accesspress anonymous post2.8.0
  • accesspressthemes accesspress basic3.2.1
  • accesspressthemes accesspress custom css2.0.1
  • accesspressthemes accesspress custom post type1.0.8
  • accesspressthemes accesspress ifeeds4.0.3
  • accesspressthemes accesspress lite2.92
  • accesspressthemes accesspress mag2.6.5
  • accesspressthemes accesspress parallax4.5
  • accesspressthemes accesspress ray1.19.5
  • accesspressthemes accesspress root2.5
  • accesspressthemes accesspress social counter1.9.1
  • accesspressthemes accesspress social icons1.8.2
  • accesspressthemes accesspress social login lite3.4.7
  • accesspressthemes accesspress social share4.5.5
  • accesspressthemes accesspress staple1.9.1
  • accesspressthemes accesspress store2.4.9
  • accesspressthemes agency lite1.1.6
  • accesspressthemes ap companionbefore 1.0.7
  • accesspressthemes ap contact form1.0.6

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (WPScan). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • AccessPress Themes accessbuddy

    • 1.0.0affected

  • AccessPress Themes Accesspress Basic

    • 3.2.1affected

  • AccessPress Themes AccessPress Custom CSS

    • 2.0.1 and later · before 2.0.1*affected
    • 2.0.2 and later · before 2.0.2affected

  • AccessPress Themes AccessPress Custom Post Type

    • 1.0.8 and later · before 1.0.8*affected
    • 1.0.9 and later · before 1.0.9affected

  • AccessPress Themes AccessPress iFeeds

    • 4.0.3 and later · before 4.0.3*affected
    • 4.0.4 and later · before 4.0.4affected

  • AccessPress Themes Accesspress Lite

    • 2.92affected

  • AccessPress Themes Accesspress Mag

    • 2.6.5affected

  • AccessPress Themes AccessPress Parallax

    • 4.5affected

  • AccessPress Themes AccessPress Root

    • 2.5affected

  • AccessPress Themes AccessPress Social Counter

    • 1.9.1 and later · before 1.9.1*affected
    • 1.9.2 and later · before 1.9.2affected

  • AccessPress Themes AccessPress Social Icons

    • 1.8.2 and later · before 1.8.2*affected
    • 1.8.3 and later · before 1.8.3affected

  • AccessPress Themes AccessPress Social Login Lite – Social Login WordPress Plugin

    • 3.4.7 and later · before 3.4.7*affected
    • 3.4.8 and later · before 3.4.8affected

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
AccessPress Themes Pricing Table Builder – AP Pricing Tables Lite1.1.3Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.

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Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-912 · Hidden Functionality

CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

ATT&CK techniques

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