Sertifier Certificate & Badge Maker for WordPress – Tutor LMS <= 1.19 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Settings Update

2025-08-22 15:51
Nabil Irawan

Vulnerability Overview

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.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 1.20, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)) The web application does not, or cannot, sufficiently verify whether a request was intentionally provided by the user who sent the request, which could have originated from an unauthorized actor.

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