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High 8.8Published May 12, 2026

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

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It affects ChurchCRM CRM. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.

No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

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.

CVSS
8.8 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-269, CWE-306, CWE-352
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
GitHub_M
NVD analysis
Deferred
Record last updated
May 14, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
ChurchCRM CRM
churchcrm:crm (from the name)
before 7.3.2
CNA record

References

References

The CVE record is authoritative. Products marked “from the name” were identified from the CNA's free-text names, not a CPE, and are matched less certainly. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

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