CVE-2026-32119: OpenEMR has Stored DOM XSS via SearchHighlight text-node reconstruction on Custom Report page

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2026-03-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

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.

Affected products

openemr: before 8.0.0.2 — fixed in 8.0.0.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: openemr 8.0.0.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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