OpenEMR has Stored DOM XSS via SearchHighlight text-node reconstruction on Custom Report page
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Cross-site scripting
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-79.
Summary
OpenEMR is a free and open source electronic health records and medical practice management application. Prior to 8.0.0.2, DOM-based stored XSS in the jQuery SearchHighlight plugin (`library/js/SearchHighlight.js`) allows an authenticated user with encounter form write access to inject arbitrary JavaScript that executes in another clinician's browser session when they use the search/find feature on the Custom Report page. The plugin reverses server-side HTML entity encoding by reading decoded text from DOM text nodes, concatenating it into a raw HTML string, and passing it to jQuery's `$()` constructor for HTML parsing. Version 8.0.0.2 fixes the issue.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA openemr (openemr) Fixed in 8.0.0.2
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-32119
References
More openemr vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-24664 SQL Injection Vulnerability in ajax graphs library (OpenEMR) CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
- TI-2026-85645 Missing write ACL lets users reassign documents in OpenEMR CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.6
- TI-2026-28796 OpenEMR 8.2.0 Remote Code Execution via CategoryTree eval() Injection CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.4
- TI-2026-20308 OpenEMR's payments gateway_api_key secret rendered into client JS code CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.6
- TI-2026-20093 OpenEMR has SQL Injection in Patient API Sort Parameter CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
- TI-2026-20048 OpenEMR Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
Sources
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