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CVE-2018-16521

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-09-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-611

Description

An XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability exists in HTML Form Entry 3.7.0, as distributed in OpenMRS Reference Application 2.8.0.

Affected products

• OpenMRS Html Form Entry: 3.7.0
• openmrs-module-referenceapplication: 2.8.0

References

• https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-htmlformentry/pull/137
• https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-htmlformentry/pull/138
• https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-htmlformentry/pull/137
• https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-module-htmlformentry/pull/138

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