Missing authorization in equalizedigital Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG…
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-862.
Summary
The Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG, ADA, EAA and Section 508 compliance plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to authorization bypass in all versions up to, and including, 1.42.0. This is due to the plugin not properly verifying that a user is authorized to perform an action. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with subscriber-level access and above, to modify the ignore state, ignore reason, and ignore comment of arbitrary accessibility issues across the entire site — including mass modification of all rows sharing an 'object' identifier when largeBatch=true is supplied — corrupting accessibility audit integrity by hiding or dismissing findings outside their authorization scope.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| equalizedigital | Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG, ADA, EAA and Section 508 compliance | up to 1.42.0 | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG, ADA, EAA and Section 508 compliance Vendorequalizedigital Affected up to 1.42.0 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-9015
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-42g4-cgrh-279c
References
Other 10
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/613fc64a-1206-4a11-b945-216068b9339a?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/accessibility-checker/tags/1.41.0/admin/class-ajax.php#L856
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/accessibility-checker/tags/1.41.0/admin/class-ajax.php#L814
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/accessibility-checker/tags/1.41.0/admin/class-ajax.php#L40
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/accessibility-checker/tags/1.41.0/admin/class-enqueue-admin.php#L89
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/accessibility-checker/tags/1.38.0/admin/class-ajax.php#L856
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/accessibility-checker/tags/1.38.0/admin/class-ajax.php#L814
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/accessibility-checker/tags/1.38.0/admin/class-ajax.php#L40
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/accessibility-checker/tags/1.38.0/admin/class-enqueue-admin.php#L89
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3539961%40accessibility-checker&new=3539961%40accessibility-checker&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
More equalizedigital vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-12236 Cross-site scripting in equalizedigital Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.4
- TI-2022-04562 Freemius SDK <= 2.4.2 - Missing Authorization Checks CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.3
- TI-2025-36625 WordPress Accessibility Checker by Equalize Digital Plugin <= 1.31.0 - Broken Access Control Vulnerability CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
- TI-2025-35740 Authorization bypass in equalizedigital Accessibility Checker by Equalize Digital CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4
- TI-2026-08086 Missing authorization in equalizedigital Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG… CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3
- TI-2025-36620 WordPress Accessibility Checker by Equalize Digital Plugin <= 1.31.0 - Broken Access Control Vulnerability CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3
Sources
- CVE-2026-9015 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-9015 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-42g4-cgrh-279c · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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