CVE-2026-9015
What it is
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.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited over the network with a low-privilege account. Limited direct impact.
- Exploit odds
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- No patch or advisory is linked yet. Look at mitigations or restrict exposure.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 0.3% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-862 · Missing authorization
- Record status
- Deferred
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 4.3
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
References
- 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-ajax.php#L814
- 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-enqueue-admin.php#L89
- 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-ajax.php#L814
- 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-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=
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/613fc64a-1206-4a11-b945-216068b9339a?source=cve