equalizedigital Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker Plugin up to 1.42.1 on WordPress Authorization Token authorization

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A vulnerability was found in equalizedigital Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker Plugin up to 1.42.1 on WordPress. It has been declared as critical. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Authorization Token Handler. The manipulation results in authorization. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-9199. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in equalizedigital Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker Plugin up to 1.42.1 on WordPress. Affected is some unknown processing of the component Authorization Token Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-862. The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was presented by Joy Gilbert. The advisory is shared for download at wordfence.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-9199 since 05/21/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 06/18/2026).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• WordPress Plugin

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• equalizedigital

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• Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker Plugin

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• 1.42.0
• 1.42.1

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