Authenticated Portal Patients Modify Other Patients' Settings

OpenEMR before 8.3.0 contains an insecure direct object reference vulnerability in portal/lib/persist.php that allows authenticated portal patients to write settings for other patients. Attackers can modify the setting_patient parameter in a JSON POST request to another patient's PID, altering that patient's portal settings such as the portal theme.

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Analysis

This vulnerability is an Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) flaw in OpenEMR's patient portal that allows authenticated users to modify settings belonging to other patients by manipulating the setting_patient parameter in JSON requests. It matters because healthcare data integrity and confidentiality are critical—attackers with valid portal credentials can alter other patients' portal themes and potentially access sensitive configuration data without authorization. OpenEMR deployments before version 8.3.0 are affected, particularly organizations where portal access is widely distributed across patient populations.

Casky's 283 matching skills leverage Claude AI's extended reasoning to detect the attack patterns mapped to MITRE ATT&CK Privilege Escalation (TA0004) and Credential Access (TA0006). Practitioners using Casky would see findings highlighting suspicious parameter manipulation in authentication logs—specifically, POST requests to persist.php where the setting_patient value differs from the authenticated user's own PID, combined with JSON payloads attempting cross-patient modifications. The platform would flag this as vertical privilege escalation (one authenticated user gaining control over another user's resources) and correlate it with CWE-639 patterns, surfacing anomalous lateral movement within the patient directory where a single account generates requests affecting multiple distinct patient identifiers in a short timeframe.

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283 Casky skills cover this attack pattern

These skills use Claude AI's reasoning model to surface findings in the same attack categories as CVE-2026-124453.

abusing-dpapi-for-credential-access

red teaming · high

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abusing-shadow-credentials-for-privesc

red teaming · high

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Access with Stolen Session Cookie

identity access management · low

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MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

TA0004 TA0006

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