AccessPress Anonymous Post = 2.8.0 - Backdoored

2021-10-13 00:00

Harald Eilertsen

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 2.8.1

Affected PluginFrontend Post WordPress Plugin – AccessPress Anonymous Post

Affected Version2.8.0

CVSS8.8High

CVECVE-2021-24867

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Vulnerability Overview

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

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 2.8.1, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-912 (Hidden Functionality) The product contains functionality that is not documented, not part of the specification, and not accessible through an interface or command sequence that is obvious to the product's users or administrators.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24867 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/415ace14-1687-4003-b385-a21a5d5e16a7

CVSS Vector

8.8

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

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