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

- Severity: CVSS 4.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 8.0.0.2
- Published: 2026-03-19 · Updated: 2026-03-19

## Affected

- openemr: fixed in 8.0.0.2

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on openemr, upgrade to a fixed version (8.0.0.2) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/openemr/openemr/security/advisories/GHSA-q283-5j7f-r6hp
- https://github.com/openemr/openemr/commit/70a41122c6d75ebcd219ba2a2535e93a6c188151

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