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

> Attackers can execute arbitrary code and access data via backdoored WordPress plugins and themes distributed from a compromised vendor website.

- **Severity:** Critical 9.8 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 21 Feb 2022
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-8cff-vwcw-f7mc

## What is CVE-2021-24867?

CVE-2021-24867 is a critical vulnerability in AccessPress Themes AP Companion, published on 21 Feb 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official 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

Weakness: CWE-912 (Hidden Functionality)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-24867?

It affects 93 products.


Products: Accesspressthemes Accessbuddy, Accesspressthemes Accesspress Anonymous Post, Accesspressthemes Accesspress Basic, Accesspressthemes Accesspress Custom Css, Accesspressthemes Accesspress Custom Post Type, Accesspressthemes Accesspress Ifeeds, Accesspressthemes Accesspress Lite, Accesspressthemes Accesspress Mag, Accesspressthemes Accesspress Parallax, Accesspressthemes Accesspress Ray, Accesspressthemes Accesspress Root, Accesspressthemes Accesspress Social Counter, Accesspressthemes Accesspress Social Icons, Accesspressthemes Accesspress Social Login Lite, Accesspressthemes Accesspress Social Share, Accesspressthemes Accesspress Staple, Accesspressthemes Accesspress Store, Accesspressthemes Agency Lite, Accesspressthemes Ap Companion, Accesspressthemes Ap Contact Form and 73 more.

## How do I fix CVE-2021-24867?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-24867 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2021-24867 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24867 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-24867 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2021-24867 is a critical vulnerability in AccessPress Themes AP Companion, published on 21 Feb 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24867 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: AccessPress Themes AP Companion. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24867/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24867/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24867
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-24867
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-24867

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-24867/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.