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.
History

Wed, 13 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Churchcrm
Churchcrm churchcrm
Vendors & Products Churchcrm
Churchcrm churchcrm

Tue, 12 May 2026 22:45:00 +0000

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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'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2026-05-12T22:23:25.126Z

Updated: 2026-05-12T22:23:25.126Z

Reserved: 2026-04-26T12:13:55.551Z

Link: CVE-2026-42289

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-05-12T23:16:17.730

Modified: 2026-05-12T23:16:17.730

Link: CVE-2026-42289

cve-icon Redhat

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