CVE-2020-36243: Open-EMR Openemr

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 64.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Patient Portal of OpenEMR 5.0.2.1 is affected by a Command Injection vulnerability in /interface/main/backup.php. To exploit the vulnerability, an authenticated attacker can send a POST request that executes arbitrary OS commands via shell metacharacters.

Affected products

Published 2021-02-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.