CVE-2026-9015
MEDIUM
4,3
Source: [email protected]
Attack Vector: network
Attack Complexity: low
Privileges Required: low
User Interaction: none
Scope: unchanged
Confidentiality: none
Integrity: low
Availability: none
Description
AI Translation Available
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.
862
Missing Authorization
IncompleteCommon Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Confidentiality
Integrity
Access Control
Availability
Potential Impacts:
Read Application Data
Read Files Or Directories
Modify Application Data
Modify Files Or Directories
Gain Privileges Or Assume Identity
Bypass Protection Mechanism
Dos: Crash, Exit, Or Restart
Dos: Resource Consumption (Cpu)
Dos: Resource Consumption (Memory)
Dos: Resource Consumption (Other)
Applicable Platforms
Technologies:
AI/ML, Web Server, Database Server, Not Technology-Specific
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https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/accessibility-checker/tags/1.41.0/ad…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/accessibility-checker/tags/1.41.0/ad…
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&ol…
https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/613fc64a-1206-4a11-b9…