CVE-2018-15152
Authentication bypass vulnerability in portal/account/register.php in versions of OpenEMR before 5.0.1.4 allows a remote attacker to…
- 9.1CriticalCVSS base score
- 25.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Authentication bypass vulnerability in portal/account/register.php in versions of OpenEMR before 5.0.1.4 allows a remote attacker to access (1) portal/add_edit_event_user.php, (2) portal/find_appt_popup_user.php, (3) portal/get_allergies.php, (4) portal/get_amendments.php, (5) portal/get_lab_results.php, (6) portal/get_medications.php, (7) portal/get_patient_documents.php, (8) portal/get_problems.php, (9) portal/get_profile.php, (10) portal/portal_payment.php, (11) portal/messaging/messages.php, (12) portal/messaging/secure_chat.php, (13) portal/report/pat_ledger.php, (14) portal/report/portal_custom_report.php, or (15) portal/report/portal_patient_report.php without authenticating as a patient.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- OpenEMR 5.0.1.3 - Authentication Bypass (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 50017webapps, phppublished 16 Jun 2021Not verified
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 8 days later
· 8 days later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 25.0% · top 2.1% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- https://insecurity.sh/reports/openemr.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.databreaches.net/openemr-patches-serious-vulnerabilities-uncovered-by-project-insecurity/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/openemr/openemr/pull/1758/files (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Patches (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163181/OpenEMR-5.0.1.3-Authentication-Bypass.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/Hacker5preme/Exploits/tree/main/CVE-2018-15152-Exploit (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-7032 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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