CVE-2018-16795 — OpenEMR 5

OpenEMR 5.0.1.3 allows Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) via library/ajax and interface/super, as demonstrated by use of interface/super/manage_site_files.php to upload a .php file.

01What is this vulnerability?

OpenEMR 5.0.1.3 allows Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) via library/ajax and interface/super, as demonstrated by use of interface/super/manage_site_files.php to upload a .php file.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-12-31T02:32:43.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T10:32:53.979Z

09References

• community.open-emr.org — https://community.open-emr.org/t/openemr-security/10597
• www.open-emr.org — https://www.open-emr.org/wiki/images/1/11/Openemr_insecurity.pdf