CVE-2026-72558: Civicrm

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An SQL injection vulnerability in CiviCRM through 6.18.alpha1 allows authenticated staff to read the entire database via the contact search RLIKE clause. The clause concatenates a user-supplied value into the SQL query without sanitization. An attacker with staff-level access can exfiltrate all database contents including donor and member records.

Affected products

• Civicrm Civicrm: up to and including 6.18.alpha1

Published 2026-08-11. Last modified 2026-09-03.