WordPress security changelog
MEDIUM CVE-2026-9015 Deferred

Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG, ADA, EAA and Section 508 compliance: A security weakness

Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG, ADA, EAA and Section 508 compliance is affected by a security weakness. Exploitation requires at least subscriber-level access. The resulting impact depends on how the affected component exposes the vulnerable operation. The published affected range is <= 1.42.0.

CVE / CNA score 4.3 CVSS 3.1 · security@wordfence.com
NVD score Pending NVD has not published its own CVSS assessment.
Component
Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG, ADA, EAA and Section 508 compliance
Plugin slug
accessibility-checker
Affected
<= 1.42.0
Safe version
> 1.42.0
Published
May 28, 2026
Weakness
CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

This CVE was published May 28, 2026 and is one of 6 known issues for this plugin.

What to do

Update, patch or deactivate.

Update Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG, ADA, EAA and Section 508 compliance to a release after 1.42.0, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.

A safe version is available, so updating to that version or later is the preferred remediation. If an immediate update is not practical, consider a targeted application patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality.

Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.

Source record

Technical 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.

CVE / CNA vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References

Primary and upstream sources