ChurchCRM up to 7.1.x Family Record Deletion Endpoint SelectDelete.php cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in ChurchCRM up to 7.1.x. This affects an unknown function of the file SelectDelete.php of the component Family Record Deletion Endpoint. The manipulation results in cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2026-40581. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in ChurchCRM up to 7.1.x. Affected is an unknown code block of the file SelectDelete.php of the component Family Record Deletion Endpoint. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. This is going to have an impact on integrity. CVE summarizes:

ChurchCRM is an open-source church management system. In versions prior to 7.2.0, the family record deletion endpoint (SelectDelete.php) performs permanent, irreversible deletion of family records and all associated data via a plain GET request with no CSRF token validation. An attacker can craft a malicious page that, when visited by an authenticated administrator, silently triggers deletion of targeted family records including associated notes, pledges, persons, and property data without any user interaction. This issue has been fixed in version 7.2.0.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-40581 since 04/14/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

By approaching the search of inurl:SelectDelete.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

Upgrading to version 7.2.0 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 39361628613af7682b813f3e62a412559616d674 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-23620). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• ChurchCRM

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• 7.0
• 7.1

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• open-source

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