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CVE-2026-72558: civicrm SQL Injection

CVSS: 8.8v3.1HighDeferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-72558DEBIAN-CVE-2026-72558
Published 11-08-2026Last modified 11-08-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-72558 is a high (CVSS 8.8) SQL Injection vulnerability in civicrm. EPSS estimates a 0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 35.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
35/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.8/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.43%
0%100%
Low · +0.19 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 11-08-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-08-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.43%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

36%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.19 pp

From 0.24% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.43%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Civicrm1 product
Debian1 product
  • civicrmAll versions (No fix recorded)
Ubuntu1 product
  • civicrmAll versions (No fix recorded)

3 vendors · 3 products

References

4 links