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WordPress Plugin: wp-accessibility-helper: CVE-2024-5987: Missing Authorization

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 28, 2024
Added
May 15, 2025
Modified
Apr 30, 2026

Description

The WP Accessibility Helper (WAH) plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a missing capability check on the 'save_contrast_variations' and 'save_empty_contrast_variations' functions in all versions up to, and including, 0.6.2.8. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Subscriber-level access and above, to edit or delete contrast settings. Please note these issues were patched in 0.6.2.8, though it broke functionality and the vendor has not responded to our follow-ups.

Solution

wp-accessibility-helper-plugin-cve-2024-5987
Title
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