CVE-2018-15152

CRITICAL

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.

Published: Aug 15, 2018 Modified: Jun 17, 2026

CWE-287

CVSS Metrics

CVSSv3

Attack Vector: NETWORK Attack Complexity: LOW Privileges Required: NONE User Interaction: NONE Scope: UNCHANGED Confidentiality Impact: HIGH Integrity Impact: HIGH Availability Impact: NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected Products (1)

Vendor	Product	Version
open-emr	openemr	* < 5.0.1.4

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-rgrj-v63m-534x

Authentication bypass vulnerability in portal/account/register.php in versions of OpenEMR before...

References (12)

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163181/OpenEMR-5.0.1.3-Authentication-Bypass.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://github.com/Hacker5preme/Exploits/tree/main/CVE-2018-15152-Exploit Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/openemr/openemr/pull/1758/files Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://insecurity.sh/reports/openemr.pdf URL Repurposed
https://www.databreaches.net/openemr-patches-serious-vulnerabilities-uncovered-by-project-insecurity/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Patches Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/163181/OpenEMR-5.0.1.3-Authentication-Bypass.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://github.com/Hacker5preme/Exploits/tree/main/CVE-2018-15152-Exploit Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/openemr/openemr/pull/1758/files Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://insecurity.sh/reports/openemr.pdf URL Repurposed
https://www.databreaches.net/openemr-patches-serious-vulnerabilities-uncovered-by-project-insecurity/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://www.open-emr.org/wiki/index.php/OpenEMR_Patches Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 9.1 / 10

EPSS Score 25.94%

Top 2% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 44.2 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub