CVE-2025-7841
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

The Sertifier Certificate & Badge Maker for WordPress – Tutor LMS plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) in all versions up to and including 1.19. The vulnerability was discovered and disclosed on August 23, 2025 (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability exists due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'sertifier_settings' page. The CVSS v3.1 base score is 4.3 (MEDIUM) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N. The vulnerability is classified as CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (NVD, Wordfence).

Impact

This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to update the plugin's API key via a forged request, provided they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link (NVD).

Mitigation and workarounds

Site administrators should update to a version newer than 1.19 when available. In the meantime, administrators should exercise caution when clicking on links, especially those related to the plugin's settings page (NVD).

Additional resources


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