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CVE-2021-24867

Backdoored Plugins & Themes from AccessPress Themes

9.8 Critical

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

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

18.0%Up 17.2 points since Feb 22, 2022
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 9.8

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

Record
CVE-2021-24867
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0
7.5 HighAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness
CWE-912
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

Backdoored Plugins & Themes from AccessPress Themes

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

Record
CVE-2021-24867
Weakness
CWE-912
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2021-11779 No score

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

Record
EUVD-2021-11779
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-8cff-vwcw-f7mc No score

Numerous Plugins and Themes from the AccessPress Themes (aka Access Keys) vendor are backdoored...

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

Record
GHSA-8cff-vwcw-f7mc
Weakness
CWE-912
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 9.8

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

Record
CVE-2021-24867
CVSS 3.1
9.8 CriticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

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History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliases, productsEUVD
first indexedCVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2021-24867 is a critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in Access-keys Wp Popup Banners, published February 21, 2022. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 18.0%, the 97th percentile. No source names a fixed version.

References

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