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CVE-2026-35573

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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.

Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS score
9.1 (v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-04-07 18:16:41.760000
Last modified
2026-10-26 22:10:00.163000
View original CVE JSON
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