diff --git a/packages/core/src/utils/prepareEvent.ts b/packages/core/src/utils/prepareEvent.ts
index 73a71e138db2..cce907c36446 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/utils/prepareEvent.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/utils/prepareEvent.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-import type { ClientOptions, Event, EventHint } from '@sentry/types';
-import { dateTimestampInSeconds, normalize, resolvedSyncPromise, truncate, uuid4 } from '@sentry/utils';
+import type { ClientOptions, Event, EventHint, StackParser } from '@sentry/types';
+import { dateTimestampInSeconds, GLOBAL_OBJ, normalize, resolvedSyncPromise, truncate, uuid4 } from '@sentry/utils';
 
 import { Scope } from '../scope';
 
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ export function prepareEvent(
 
   applyClientOptions(prepared, options);
   applyIntegrationsMetadata(prepared, integrations);
+  applyDebugMetadata(prepared, options.stackParser);
 
   // If we have scope given to us, use it as the base for further modifications.
   // This allows us to prevent unnecessary copying of data if `captureContext` is not provided.
@@ -112,6 +113,59 @@ function applyClientOptions(event: Event, options: ClientOptions): void {
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * Applies debug metadata images to the event in order to apply source maps by looking up their debug ID.
+ */
+export function applyDebugMetadata(event: Event, stackParser: StackParser): void {
+  const debugIdMap = GLOBAL_OBJ._sentryDebugIds;
+
+  if (!debugIdMap) {
+    return;
+  }
+
+  // Build a map of abs_path -> debug_id
+  const absPathDebugIdMap = Object.keys(debugIdMap).reduce<Record<string, string>>((acc, debugIdStackTrace) => {
+    const parsedStack = stackParser(debugIdStackTrace);
+    for (const stackFrame of parsedStack) {
+      if (stackFrame.abs_path) {
+        acc[stackFrame.abs_path] = debugIdMap[debugIdStackTrace];
+        break;
+      }
+    }
+    return acc;
+  }, {});
+
+  // Get a Set of abs_paths in the stack trace
+  const errorAbsPaths = new Set<string>();
+  try {
+    // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-non-null-assertion
+    event!.exception!.values!.forEach(exception => {
+      // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-non-null-assertion
+      exception.stacktrace!.frames!.forEach(frame => {
+        if (frame.abs_path) {
+          errorAbsPaths.add(frame.abs_path);
+        }
+      });
+    });
+  } catch (e) {
+    // To save bundle size we're just try catching here instead of checking for the existence of all the different objects.
+  }
+
+  // Fill debug_meta information
+  event.debug_meta = event.debug_meta || {};
+  event.debug_meta.images = event.debug_meta.images || [];
+  const images = event.debug_meta.images;
+  errorAbsPaths.forEach(absPath => {
+    if (absPathDebugIdMap[absPath]) {
+      images.push({
+        type: 'sourcemap',
+        code_file: absPath,
+        debug_id: absPathDebugIdMap[absPath],
+      });
+    }
+  });
+}
+
 /**
  * This function adds all used integrations to the SDK info in the event.
  * @param event The event that will be filled with all integrations.
diff --git a/packages/core/test/lib/prepareEvent.test.ts b/packages/core/test/lib/prepareEvent.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b4cac98355e0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/core/test/lib/prepareEvent.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+import type { Event } from '@sentry/types';
+import { createStackParser, GLOBAL_OBJ } from '@sentry/utils';
+
+import { applyDebugMetadata } from '../../src/utils/prepareEvent';
+
+describe('applyDebugMetadata', () => {
+  afterEach(() => {
+    GLOBAL_OBJ._sentryDebugIds = undefined;
+  });
+
+  it('should put debug source map images in debug_meta field', () => {
+    GLOBAL_OBJ._sentryDebugIds = {
+      'filename1.js\nfilename1.js': 'aaaaaaaa-aaaa-4aaa-aaaa-aaaaaaaaaa',
+      'filename2.js\nfilename2.js': 'bbbbbbbb-bbbb-4bbb-bbbb-bbbbbbbbbb',
+      'filename4.js\nfilename4.js': 'cccccccc-cccc-4ccc-cccc-cccccccccc',
+    };
+
+    const stackParser = createStackParser([0, line => ({ filename: line, abs_path: line })]);
+
+    const event: Event = {
+      exception: {
+        values: [
+          {
+            stacktrace: {
+              frames: [
+                { abs_path: 'filename1.js', filename: 'filename1.js' },
+                { abs_path: 'filename2.js', filename: 'filename2.js' },
+                { abs_path: 'filename1.js', filename: 'filename1.js' },
+                { abs_path: 'filename3.js', filename: 'filename3.js' },
+              ],
+            },
+          },
+        ],
+      },
+    };
+
+    applyDebugMetadata(event, stackParser);
+
+    expect(event.debug_meta?.images).toContainEqual({
+      type: 'sourcemap',
+      code_file: 'filename1.js',
+      debug_id: 'aaaaaaaa-aaaa-4aaa-aaaa-aaaaaaaaaa',
+    });
+
+    expect(event.debug_meta?.images).toContainEqual({
+      type: 'sourcemap',
+      code_file: 'filename2.js',
+      debug_id: 'bbbbbbbb-bbbb-4bbb-bbbb-bbbbbbbbbb',
+    });
+
+    // expect not to contain an image for the stack frame that doesn't have a corresponding debug id
+    expect(event.debug_meta?.images).not.toContainEqual(
+      expect.objectContaining({
+        type: 'sourcemap',
+        code_file: 'filename3.js',
+      }),
+    );
+
+    // expect not to contain an image for the debug id mapping that isn't contained in the stack trace
+    expect(event.debug_meta?.images).not.toContainEqual(
+      expect.objectContaining({
+        type: 'sourcemap',
+        code_file: 'filename4.js',
+        debug_id: 'cccccccc-cccc-4ccc-cccc-cccccccccc',
+      }),
+    );
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/types/src/debugMeta.ts b/packages/types/src/debugMeta.ts
index d0cbfeb46118..2a6f201874da 100644
--- a/packages/types/src/debugMeta.ts
+++ b/packages/types/src/debugMeta.ts
@@ -5,18 +5,18 @@ export interface DebugMeta {
   images?: Array<DebugImage>;
 }
 
-/**
- * Possible choices for debug images.
- */
-export type DebugImageType = 'wasm' | 'macho' | 'elf' | 'pe';
+export type DebugImage = WasmDebugImage | SourceMapDebugImage;
 
-/**
- * References to debug images.
- */
-export interface DebugImage {
-  type: DebugImageType;
+interface WasmDebugImage {
+  type: 'wasm';
   debug_id: string;
   code_id?: string | null;
   code_file: string;
   debug_file?: string | null;
 }
+
+interface SourceMapDebugImage {
+  type: 'sourcemap';
+  code_file: string; // abs_path
+  debug_id: string; // uuid
+}
diff --git a/packages/types/src/index.ts b/packages/types/src/index.ts
index 0b52fac74e02..06aaba7ff571 100644
--- a/packages/types/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/types/src/index.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ export type { ClientReport, Outcome, EventDropReason } from './clientreport';
 export type { Context, Contexts, DeviceContext, OsContext, AppContext, CultureContext, TraceContext } from './context';
 export type { DataCategory } from './datacategory';
 export type { DsnComponents, DsnLike, DsnProtocol } from './dsn';
-export type { DebugImage, DebugImageType, DebugMeta } from './debugMeta';
+export type { DebugImage, DebugMeta } from './debugMeta';
 export type {
   AttachmentItem,
   BaseEnvelopeHeaders,
diff --git a/packages/utils/src/stacktrace.ts b/packages/utils/src/stacktrace.ts
index 8af1c6f0d1b0..ccf18c64e897 100644
--- a/packages/utils/src/stacktrace.ts
+++ b/packages/utils/src/stacktrace.ts
@@ -1,14 +1,7 @@
 import type { StackFrame, StackLineParser, StackLineParserFn, StackParser } from '@sentry/types';
 
-import { GLOBAL_OBJ } from './worldwide';
-
 const STACKTRACE_LIMIT = 50;
 
-type DebugIdFilename = string;
-type DebugId = string;
-
-const debugIdParserCache = new Map<StackLineParserFn, Map<DebugIdFilename, DebugId>>();
-
 /**
  * Creates a stack parser with the supplied line parsers
  *
@@ -21,29 +14,6 @@ export function createStackParser(...parsers: StackLineParser[]): StackParser {
 
   return (stack: string, skipFirst: number = 0): StackFrame[] => {
     const frames: StackFrame[] = [];
-
-    for (const parser of sortedParsers) {
-      let debugIdCache = debugIdParserCache.get(parser);
-      if (!debugIdCache) {
-        debugIdCache = new Map();
-        debugIdParserCache.set(parser, debugIdCache);
-      }
-
-      const debugIdMap = GLOBAL_OBJ._sentryDebugIds;
-
-      if (debugIdMap) {
-        Object.keys(debugIdMap).forEach(debugIdStackTrace => {
-          debugIdStackTrace.split('\n').forEach(line => {
-            const frame = parser(line);
-            if (frame && frame.filename) {
-              // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-non-null-assertion
-              debugIdCache!.set(frame.filename, debugIdMap[debugIdStackTrace]);
-            }
-          });
-        });
-      }
-    }
-
     for (const line of stack.split('\n').slice(skipFirst)) {
       // Ignore lines over 1kb as they are unlikely to be stack frames.
       // Many of the regular expressions use backtracking which results in run time that increases exponentially with
@@ -61,14 +31,6 @@ export function createStackParser(...parsers: StackLineParser[]): StackParser {
         const frame = parser(cleanedLine);
 
         if (frame) {
-          const debugIdCache = debugIdParserCache.get(parser);
-          if (debugIdCache && frame.filename) {
-            const cachedDebugId = debugIdCache.get(frame.filename);
-            if (cachedDebugId) {
-              frame.debug_id = cachedDebugId;
-            }
-          }
-
           frames.push(frame);
           break;
         }
diff --git a/packages/utils/src/worldwide.ts b/packages/utils/src/worldwide.ts
index 028eba2ac774..7b61814229cf 100644
--- a/packages/utils/src/worldwide.ts
+++ b/packages/utils/src/worldwide.ts
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ export interface InternalGlobal {
     id?: string;
   };
   SENTRY_SDK_SOURCE?: SdkSource;
+  /**
+   * Debug IDs are indirectly injected by Sentry CLI or bundler plugins to directly reference a particular source map
+   * for resolving of a source file. The injected code will place an entry into the record for each loaded bundle/JS
+   * file.
+   */
   _sentryDebugIds?: Record<string, string>;
   __SENTRY__: {
     globalEventProcessors: any;
diff --git a/packages/utils/test/stacktrace.test.ts b/packages/utils/test/stacktrace.test.ts
index a2438c687bc4..61b44de34366 100644
--- a/packages/utils/test/stacktrace.test.ts
+++ b/packages/utils/test/stacktrace.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-import { createStackParser, stripSentryFramesAndReverse } from '../src/stacktrace';
-import { GLOBAL_OBJ } from '../src/worldwide';
+import { stripSentryFramesAndReverse } from '../src/stacktrace';
 
 describe('Stacktrace', () => {
   describe('stripSentryFramesAndReverse()', () => {
@@ -69,41 +68,3 @@ describe('Stacktrace', () => {
     });
   });
 });
-
-describe('Stack parsers created with createStackParser', () => {
-  afterEach(() => {
-    GLOBAL_OBJ._sentryDebugIds = undefined;
-  });
-
-  it('put debug ids onto individual frames', () => {
-    GLOBAL_OBJ._sentryDebugIds = {
-      'filename1.js\nfilename1.js': 'aaaaaaaa-aaaa-4aaa-aaaa-aaaaaaaaaa',
-      'filename2.js\nfilename2.js': 'bbbbbbbb-bbbb-4bbb-bbbb-bbbbbbbbbb',
-    };
-
-    const fakeErrorStack = 'filename1.js\nfilename2.js\nfilename1.js\nfilename3.js';
-    const stackParser = createStackParser([0, line => ({ filename: line })]);
-
-    const result = stackParser(fakeErrorStack);
-
-    expect(result[0]).toStrictEqual({ filename: 'filename3.js', function: '?' });
-
-    expect(result[1]).toStrictEqual({
-      filename: 'filename1.js',
-      function: '?',
-      debug_id: 'aaaaaaaa-aaaa-4aaa-aaaa-aaaaaaaaaa',
-    });
-
-    expect(result[2]).toStrictEqual({
-      filename: 'filename2.js',
-      function: '?',
-      debug_id: 'bbbbbbbb-bbbb-4bbb-bbbb-bbbbbbbbbb',
-    });
-
-    expect(result[3]).toStrictEqual({
-      filename: 'filename1.js',
-      function: '?',
-      debug_id: 'aaaaaaaa-aaaa-4aaa-aaaa-aaaaaaaaaa',
-    });
-  });
-});
diff --git a/packages/wasm/src/index.ts b/packages/wasm/src/index.ts
index 436668e73ac2..8d79586eb1d3 100644
--- a/packages/wasm/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/wasm/src/index.ts
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ export class Wasm implements Integration {
 
       if (haveWasm) {
         event.debug_meta = event.debug_meta || {};
-        event.debug_meta.images = getImages();
+        event.debug_meta.images = [...(event.debug_meta.images || []), ...getImages()];
       }
 
       return event;
diff --git a/packages/wasm/src/registry.ts b/packages/wasm/src/registry.ts
index f0b1069ed7e9..765b47026f00 100644
--- a/packages/wasm/src/registry.ts
+++ b/packages/wasm/src/registry.ts
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ export function getModuleInfo(module: WebAssembly.Module): ModuleInfo {
 export function registerModule(module: WebAssembly.Module, url: string): void {
   const { buildId, debugFile } = getModuleInfo(module);
   if (buildId) {
-    const oldIdx = IMAGES.findIndex(img => img.code_file === url);
+    const oldIdx = getImage(url);
     if (oldIdx >= 0) {
       IMAGES.splice(oldIdx, 1);
     }
@@ -68,5 +68,7 @@ export function getImages(): Array<DebugImage> {
  * @param url the URL of the WebAssembly module.
  */
 export function getImage(url: string): number {
-  return IMAGES.findIndex(img => img.code_file === url);
+  return IMAGES.findIndex(image => {
+    return image.type === 'wasm' && image.code_file === url;
+  });
 }