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4 vulnerabilities by webwork
CVE-2025-40642 (GCVE-0-2025-40642)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-08 11:25 – Updated: 2025-09-08 13:36
VLAI
Title
Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in WebWork
Summary
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.
Severity
CWE
- CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation (XSS or 'Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| WebWork | WebWork PHP script |
Affected:
all versions
|
Date Public
2025-09-08 10:00
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CVE-2006-6629 (GCVE-0-2006-6629)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-12-18 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:33
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
3 references
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|---|---|
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Date Public
2006-12-12 00:00
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CVE-2006-2839 (GCVE-0-2006-2839)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-06-06 20:03 – Updated: 2024-08-07 18:06
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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Date Public
2006-06-01 00:00
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CVE-2006-0446 (GCVE-0-2006-0446)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-01-27 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 16:34
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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