CVE-2013-10044

OpenEMR ≤ 4.1.1 SQL Injection Privilege Escalation and RCE

State: Published
Severity: 8.7 High
Published: Aug 1, 2025
Updated: May 15, 2026
Reserved: Jul 31, 2025

Description

An authenticated SQL injection vulnerability exists in OpenEMR ≤ 4.1.1 Patch 14 that allows a low-privileged attacker to extract administrator credentials and subsequently escalate privileges. Once elevated, the attacker can exploit an unrestricted file upload flaw to achieve remote code execution, resulting in full compromise of the application and its host system.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	8.7 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	VulnCheck

Weaknesses

CWE-89 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection')
CWE-434 Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type

Affected Products

Product	Versions
OpenEMROpenEMR Foundation	4.1.1 Patch 14 and earlierAffected

References

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/unix/webapp/openemr_sqli_privesc_upload.rbexploit
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/28329exploit
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/28408exploit
https://www.open-emr.org/product
https://github.com/openemr/openemrproduct
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/openemr-sqli-priv-esc-rcethird-party-advisory

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