Sertifier Certificate & Badge Maker for WordPress – Tutor LMS <= 1.19 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Tampering
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-352.
Summary
The Sertifier Certificate & Badge Maker for WordPress – Tutor LMS plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.19. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'sertifier_settings' page. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's api key via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-7841
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-wp4q-jp2r-3c5h
References
Other 3
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e0050d44-bfa1-4dcb-947b-0df1b5e826d3?source=cve
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/sertifier-certificates-open-badges/
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3350037%40sertifier-certificates-open-badges&new=3350037%40sertifier-certificates-open-badges&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=
More sertifier vulnerabilities
- TI-2025-33181 WordPress Sertifier Certificate & Badge Maker plugin <= 1.21 - Broken Access Control Vulnerability CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
Sources
- CVE-2025-7841 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-7841 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-wp4q-jp2r-3c5h · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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