CVE-2025-58976
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A Missing Authorization vulnerability (CVE-2025-58976) was discovered in Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker affecting versions through 1.31.0. The vulnerability was disclosed on September 9, 2025, and allows exploitation of incorrectly configured access control security levels (NVD, Patchstack).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a Broken Access Control issue (CWE-862) with a CVSS v3.1 Base Score of 4.3 (MEDIUM). The attack vector is Network-based (AV:N), requires Low privileges (PR:L), and no user interaction (UI:N). The scope is Unchanged (S:U) with Low confidentiality impact (C:L) and No impact on integrity (I:N) or availability (A:N) (Patchstack).

Impact

The vulnerability allows an unprivileged user to execute certain higher privileged actions due to missing authorization, authentication, or nonce token checks. The severity impact is considered low and is unlikely to be exploited (Patchstack).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.31.1 of the Accessibility Checker plugin. Users are advised to update to version 1.31.1 or later to remove the vulnerability (Patchstack).

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