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CVE-2026-42289: ChurchCRM: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Leading to Admin Privilege Escalation

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-05-12 · updated 2026-10-26
• Weakness: CWE-269

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.

Affected products

• ChurchCRM CRM: before 7.3.2

References

• https://github.com/ChurchCRM/CRM/security/advisories/GHSA-3xq9-c86x-cwpp
• https://github.com/ChurchCRM/CRM/security/advisories/GHSA-3xq9-c86x-cwpp

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