CVE-2026-9199 Missing authorization in Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG, ADA, EAA and Section 508 compliance
Authenticated authors can modify accessibility audit records for posts they do not own by exploiting a missing authorization check in the largeBatch parameter.
- 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-2026-9199?
CVE-2026-9199 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in equalizedigital Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG, ADA, EAA and Section 508 compliance, published on 18 Jun 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, 1.42.1. 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 author-level access and above, to dismiss, ignore, or restore accessibility audit issue records belonging to posts they are not permitted to edit by supplying an issue from their own post as an authorization token to affect matching issues across the entire site. An Author-level user can exploit this by passing largeBatch=true on a dismiss-issue request referencing one of their own post's issues, causing the handler to bulk-modify all site-wide accessibility issues sharing the same 'object' value — including those belonging to administrator-owned posts.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-9199?
How do I fix CVE-2026-9199?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-9199 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-2026-9199 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-9199 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-47pj-xq28-xxxm.