๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-42289

HIGH 8.8

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

CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

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.

CWE CWE-269 CWE-306 CWE-352
Vendor churchcrm
Product crm
Published May 12, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

Affected Versions

ChurchCRM / CRM
< 7.3.2

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
github.com: https://github.com/ChurchCRM/CRM/security/advisories/GHSA-3xq9-c86x-cwpp