Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 28, 2006· Updated Apr 23, 2026
CVE-2006-5599
CVE-2006-5599
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Oracle Application Express (formerly HTML DB) before 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML or web script via the WWV_FLOW_ITEM_HELP package. NOTE: it is likely that this issue overlaps one of the Oracle VulnIDs covered by CVE-2006-5351. Oracle has not publicly disputed claims by a reliable researcher that this has been fixed by the October 2006 CPU.
Affected products
1- cpe:2.3:a:oracle:apex:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
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References
5- www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpuoct2006.htmlnvdPatch
- www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_apex_css_wwv_flow_item_help.htmlnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-291A.htmlnvdPatchUS Government Resource
- securityreason.com/securityalert/1792nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449500/100/0/threadednvd
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