# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 28 May 2026
- **Updated:** 28 May 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-42g4-cgrh-279c

## 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 (Missing Authorization)

## 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.

## Is CVE-2026-9015 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-9015 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-9015 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-9015 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: equalizedigital Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG, ADA, EAA and Section 508 compliance. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-9015/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-9015/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-9015
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-9015
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-9015

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-9015/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.