AccessPress Anonymous Post = 2.8.0 - Backdoored

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

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

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1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug accesspress-anonymous-post (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.8.1, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • 2.8.0 - 2.8.0
Patched Version
  • 2.8.1

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