webwork vulnerabilities

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• program generation language 1
• WebWork PHP script 1

Latest webwork CVEs

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1. CVE-2025-40642 Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in WebWork

   Published 2025-09-08

   Medium·CVSS 5.1

   Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WebWork, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code through the 'q' and 'engine' request parameters in /search.

2. CVE-2006-6629 lib/WeBWorK/PG/Translator.pm in WeBWorK Program Generation (PG) Language before 2.3.1 uses an insufficiently restrictive regular expression to determine valid macro filenames, which allows attackers t...

   Published 2006-12-18

   High·CVSS 7.5

   lib/WeBWorK/PG/Translator.pm in WeBWorK Program Generation (PG) Language before 2.3.1 uses an insufficiently restrictive regular expression to determine valid macro filenames, which allows attackers to load arbitrary macro files whose names contain the strings (1) dangerousMacros...

3. CVE-2006-2839 Directory traversal vulnerability in PG Problem Editor module (PGProblemEditor.pm) in WeBWorK Online Homework Delivery System 2.2.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to read and write files outside....

   Published 2006-06-06

   Medium·CVSS 6.4

   Directory traversal vulnerability in PG Problem Editor module (PGProblemEditor.pm) in WeBWorK Online Homework Delivery System 2.2.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to read and write files outside of the templates directory.

4. CVE-2006-0446 Unspecified vulnerability in WeBWorK 2.1.3 and 2.2-pre1 allows remote privileged attackers to execute arbitrary commands as the web server via unknown attack vectors.

   Published 2006-01-27

   Medium·CVSS 6.5

   Unspecified vulnerability in WeBWorK 2.1.3 and 2.2-pre1 allows remote privileged attackers to execute arbitrary commands as the web server via unknown attack vectors.

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