CVE-2026-42289
HIGHChurchCRM: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Leading to Admin Privilege Escalation
Title source: cnaDescription
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.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
X_Refsource_Confirm x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/ChurchCRM/CRM/security/advisories/GHSA-3xq9-c86x-cwpp
Scores
CVSS v3
8.8
EPSS
0.0013
EPSS Percentile
2.7%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-269
CWE-306
CWE-352
Status
published
Products (1)
ChurchCRM/CRM
< 7.3.2
Published
May 12, 2026
Tracked Since
May 13, 2026