CVE-2025-57886

Accessibility Checker by Equalize Digital <= 1.30.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Insecure Direct Object Reference

2025-08-22 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 1.30.1
Affected Plugin: Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG, ADA, EAA and Section 508 compliance
Affected Version: <= 1.30.0
CVSS: 4.3Medium
Weakness type: CWE-639 · Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE: CVE-2025-57886

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At a glance

CVE-2025-57886 is a medium-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in the Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 1.30.0. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires an authenticated account at Contributor level or above. The issue is fixed in version 1.30.1; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed August 2025, reported by n0_arafat_n0.

Vulnerability Overview

The Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – Audit Your Website for WCAG, ADA, and Section 508 Accessibility Errors plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Insecure Direct Object Reference in all versions up to, and including, 1.30.0 due to missing validation on a user controlled key. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to perform an unauthorized action.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-639: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Reaching this weakness in Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker <= 1.30.0 takes an account at Contributor level or above. Authorization bypass through a user-controlled key, often called insecure direct object reference, means the application looks up a record by an identifier from the request without checking that the caller owns it.

Changing a number in the request is enough to read or modify other users' records, which on commerce and membership sites means customer data. For Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker the fix is 1.30.1: builds <= 1.30.0 are affected, anything from 1.30.1 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.30.1, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

Because it turns on account access, WordSec's login security is the relevant layer: role-based two-factor, captcha and brute-force limits raise the cost of getting the account this needs. None of that substitutes for the fix: Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker 1.30.1 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-57886 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/07f343cd-5181-48a3-bee7-a60dd9771d07 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-57886

Related records

Other vulnerabilities in Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker – WCAG, ADA, EAA and Section 508 compliance

CVSS Vector

4.3

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredLow
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

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