AccessPress Anonymous Post = 2.8.0 - Backdoored

Hidden Functionality
CVE CVE-2021-24867
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published October 13, 2021
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Harald Eilertsen
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

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug accesspress-anonymous-post (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 2.8.0 - 2.8.0
Patched Version
  • 2.8.1
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