CVE-2025-11938

ChurchCRM setup.php deserialization

State: Published
Severity: 6.3 Medium
Published: Oct 19, 2025
Updated: Feb 24, 2026
Reserved: Oct 18, 2025

Description

A vulnerability was found in ChurchCRM up to 5.18.0. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file setup/routes/setup.php. Performing a manipulation of the argument DB_PASSWORD/ROOT_PATH/URL results in deserialization. The attack may be initiated remotely. The attack's complexity is rated as high. It is stated that the exploitability is difficult. The exploit has been made public and could be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	6.3 Medium	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P	VulDB
3.1	5.6 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R	VulDB
3.0	5.6 Medium	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:P/RL:X/RC:R	VulDB
2.0	5.1 Medium	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:POC/RL:ND/RC:UR	VulDB

Weaknesses

CWE-502 Deserialization
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Affected Products

Product	Versions
ChurchCRMn/a	5.0Affected 5.1Affected 5.2Affected 5.3Affected 5.4Affected 5.5Affected 5.6Affected 5.7Affected 5.8Affected 5.9Affected 5.10Affected 5.11Affected 5.12Affected 5.13Affected 5.14Affected 5.15Affected 5.16Affected 5.17Affected 5.18.0Affected

References

VDB-329014 | ChurchCRM setup.php deserializationvdb-entrytechnical-description
VDB-329014 | CTI Indicators (IOB, IOC, IOA)signaturepermissions-required
Submit #671083 | ChurchCRM <= 5.18.0 Remote Code Execution (RCE)third-party-advisory
https://github.com/uartu0/advisories/blob/main/churchcrm-setup-rce-2025.mdexploit

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