CVE-2006-6629: Webwork Program Generation Language

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.pl, (2) PG.pl, or (3) IO.pl.

Affected products

• Webwork Program Generation Language: up to and including 2.3

Published 2006-12-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.