CVE-2026-9015 Missing authorization in Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG, ADA, EAA and Section 508 compliance
Authenticated subscribers can arbitrarily modify accessibility issue ignore states across the site due to missing authorization checks in the WordPress plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-9015?
CVE-2026-9015 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in equalizedigital Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG, ADA, EAA and Section 508 compliance, published on 28 May 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-9015?
How do I fix CVE-2026-9015?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-9015 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2026-9015 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-9015 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-42g4-cgrh-279c.