diff --git a/Modules/FindOpenSSL.cmake b/Modules/FindOpenSSL.cmake
index 8474e05c..ac742855 100644
--- a/Modules/FindOpenSSL.cmake
+++ b/Modules/FindOpenSSL.cmake
@@ -520,7 +520,6 @@ if(OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR AND EXISTS "${OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR}/openssl/opensslv.h")
       from_hex("${OPENSSL_VERSION_PATCH}" _tmp)
       # 96 is the ASCII code of 'a' minus 1
       math(EXPR OPENSSL_VERSION_PATCH_ASCII "${_tmp} + 96")
-      unset(_tmp)
       # Once anyone knows how OpenSSL would call the patch versions beyond 'z'
       # this should be updated to handle that, too. This has not happened yet
       # so it is simply ignored here for now.
@@ -528,6 +527,16 @@ if(OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR AND EXISTS "${OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR}/openssl/opensslv.h")
     endif ()
 
     set(OPENSSL_VERSION "${OPENSSL_VERSION_MAJOR}.${OPENSSL_VERSION_MINOR}.${OPENSSL_VERSION_FIX}${OPENSSL_VERSION_PATCH_STRING}")
+
+    if ("${_tmp}" GREATER 26)
+      # openssl version 1.1.1wa get text directly
+      file(STRINGS "${OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIR}/openssl/opensslv.h" openssl_version_text
+           REGEX "^#[\t ]*define[\t ]+OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT[\t ]+\"OpenSSL[^\"]*\".*")
+      string(REGEX MATCH "[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+\\.[0-9]+[a-zA-Z]+" version_number ${openssl_version_text})
+      set(OPENSSL_VERSION "${version_number}")
+    endif ()
+    unset(_tmp)
+
   else ()
     # Since OpenSSL 3.0.0, the new version format is MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH and
     # a new OPENSSL_VERSION_STR macro contains exactly that
-- 
2.33.0

