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Critical · 9.1 CVE-2026-35573 EUVD-2026-19771

ChurchCRM has a Path traversal leads to RCE

Published Apr 7, 2026 · Updated Apr 8, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

ChurchCRM is an open-source church management system. Prior to 6.5.3, a path traversal vulnerability in ChurchCRM's backup restore functionality allows authenticated administrators to upload arbitrary files and achieve remote code execution by overwriting Apache .htaccess configuration files. The vulnerability exists in src/ChurchCRM/Backup/RestoreJob.php. The $rawUploadedFile['name'] parameter is user-controlled and allows uploading files with arbitrary names to /var/www/html/tmp_attach/ChurchCRMBackups/. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.5.3.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ChurchCRM CRM < 6.5.3 —

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