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CVE-2023-33255

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-05-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

An issue was discovered in Papaya Viewer 1.0.1449. User-supplied input in form of DICOM or NIFTI images can be loaded into the Papaya web application without any kind of sanitization. This allows injection of arbitrary JavaScript code into image metadata, which is executed when that metadata is displayed in the Papaya web application.

Affected products

• Uthscsa Papaya Viewer: 1.0

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172644/Papaya-Medical-Viewer-1.0-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/May/21
• https://schutzwerk.com
• https://www.schutzwerk.com/advisories/SCHUTZWERK-SA-2022-001.txt
• https://www.schutzwerk.com/blog/schutzwerk-sa-2022-001/
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172644/Papaya-Medical-Viewer-1.0-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/May/21
• https://schutzwerk.com
• https://www.schutzwerk.com/advisories/SCHUTZWERK-SA-2022-001.txt
• https://www.schutzwerk.com/blog/schutzwerk-sa-2022-001/

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