CVE-2026-42289

ChurchCRM: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Leading to Admin Privilege Escalation

State
Published
Severity
8.8 High
Published
May 12, 2026
Updated
May 14, 2026
Reserved
Apr 26, 2026

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Description

ChurchCRM is an open-source church management system. Prior to 7.3.2, UserEditor.php processes user account creation and permission updates entirely through $_POST parameters with no CSRF token validation. An unauthenticated attacker can craft a malicious HTML page that, when visited by an authenticated administrator, silently elevates any low-privilege user to full administrator or creates a new admin backdoor account without the victim's knowledge This vulnerability is fixed in 7.3.2.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
  • CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Function
  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Affected Products

ProductVersions
CRMChurchCRM
  • < 7.3.2Affected

References

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