What is CVE-2017-6394?

CVE-2017-6394 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Open-Emr Openemr, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-03-02.

How severe is CVE-2017-6394?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Open-Emr Openemr

CVE-2017-6394

Multiple Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) issues were discovered in OpenEMR 5.0.0 and 5.0.1-dev. The vulnerabilities exist due to insufficient filtration of user-supplied data passed to the "openemr-master/gacl/admin/object_search.php" URL (section_value; src_form). An attacker could execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a browser in the context of the vulnerable website.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2017-03-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (68.3th percentile), scored 2026-10-23.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 68th percentile — 68.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Open-Emr Openemr — versions 5.0.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/96576 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/96539 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
github.com/openemr/openemr/issues/498 (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-6394?: CVE-2017-6394 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Open-Emr Openemr, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2017-03-02.
How severe is CVE-2017-6394?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.