CVE-2023-33255

MEDIUM 6.1CVE-2023-33255 · Published 26/05/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2023-33255 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.1) vulnerability affecting papaya viewer (uthscsa).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.92%, higher than 60.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
papaya viewer uthscsa	`= 1.0`	No fix yet

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.

References

packetstormsecurity.com/files/172644/Papaya-Medical-Viewer-1.0-Cross-Site-Scripting.html · Exploit
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2023/May/21 · Exploit
schutzwerk.com · Not Applicable
schutzwerk.com/advisories/SCHUTZWERK-SA-2022-001.txt · Third Party Advisory
schutzwerk.com/blog/schutzwerk-sa-2022-001

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