Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-5599

Title: Oracle Apex Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-5599.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Oct 28, 2006

Modified Date Apr 23, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.24%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-5599: 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.

Impacted Vendors

oracle 1

gotrango 1

Reference Links

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1792 http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpuoct2006.html http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_apex_css_wwv_flow_item_help.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449500/100/0/threaded http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-291A.html http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1792 http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpuoct2006.html http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_apex_css_wwv_flow_item_help.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449500/100/0/threaded http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-291A.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-5599 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 23, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 28, 2006 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.