CVE-2026-42289

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

Published May 12, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 8.8 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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Churchcrm churchcrm
Vendors & Products Churchcrm
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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.
Title ChurchCRM: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Leading to Admin Privilege Escalation
Weaknesses CWE-269
CWE-306
CWE-352
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
May 14, 2026, 12:36 PM
Reserved
Apr 26, 2026, 12:13 PM
Status
Deferred
Published
May 12, 2026, 11:16 PM
Modified
Oct 26, 2026, 6:10 PM