Is this vulnerability remotely exploitable?

Yes, but exploitation requires an authenticated clinician account. Once an attacker has or compromises such an account, they can inject malicious content that executes in the browsers of other remote users who access the affected GAD-7 assessments.

What level of access does an attacker need to exploit this issue?

The attacker needs clinician-level access (or any role with equivalent abilities to create or edit GAD-7 assessments). From there, they can target higher-privileged users such as administrators who view the tampered assessments.

What is the safest general fix pattern for this kind of vulnerability?

The safest approach is to apply context-aware output encoding everywhere user-controlled data is rendered, backed by a secure-by-default templating approach. Treat all stored data as untrusted and avoid mixing user data directly with HTML or JavaScript without appropriate encoding.

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(8.7)

Stored Cross-Site Scripting (CWE-79) in OpenEMR GAD-7 Anxiety Assessment Form

CVE-2025-69231

Published:

Feb 24, 2026

Status:

Analyzed

Summary

Affected Context

Exploit Preconditions

Why This Happens

Potential Impact

General Mitigation Guidance

How Teams Detect Issues Like This

Frequently Asked Questions

Source

NDV

Recent Vulnerabilities

CWE-77;CWE-78

HIGH RISK

HIGH

(7.3)

OS Command Injection (CWE-78) in Totolink A7100RU setGameSpeedCfg CGI Handler

Remote Code Execution on the Router

April 6, 2026

CWE-77;CWE-78

HIGH RISK

HIGH

(7.3)

OS Command Injection (CWE-78) in Totolink A7100RU setFirewallType Handler

Remote Code Execution on Router Firmware

April 6, 2026

Vulnerability Type

Category:

Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

CWE:

CWE-79

Impact:

Session Hijacking and Privilege Escalation via Stored XSS

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(8.7)

CVSS Version:

3.1

Vulnerability Type

Category:

Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

CWE:

CWE-79

Impact:

Session Hijacking and Privilege Escalation via Stored XSS

Severity:

HIGH RISK

(8.7)

CVSS Version:

3.1

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Stored Cross-Site Scripting (CWE-79) in OpenEMR GAD-7 Anxiety Assessment Form

Summary

Affected Context

Exploit Preconditions

Why This Happens

Potential Impact

General Mitigation Guidance

How Teams Detect Issues Like This

Frequently Asked Questions

Source

Recent Vulnerabilities

HIGH RISK

HIGH

(7.3)

OS Command Injection (CWE-78) in Totolink A7100RU setGameSpeedCfg CGI Handler

HIGH RISK

HIGH

(7.3)

OS Command Injection (CWE-78) in Totolink A7100RU setFirewallType Handler

Vulnerability Type

Vulnerability Type

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