Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Oracle Application Express (formerly HTML DB) before 2.2.1 allows remote attackers to inject…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (5)

• 1792 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
• 20061023 Cross-Site-Scripting Vulnerability in Oracle APEX WWV_FLOW_ITEM_HELP (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/oracle_apex_css_wwv_flow_item_help.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• TA06-291A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/critical-patch-updates/cpuoct2006.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 19:55 UTC.