Built from 2.1.17 source, works fine on commandline, but not working from CGI wrapper. Traced problem to regular expressions failing to match, specifically in contexts like the following in Render.pm: my ($f)=/$config{wiki_file_regexp}/; # untaint It works if I replace it with: my ($f)=/(^[-[:alnum:]_.:\/+]+$)/; # untaint which is exactly the same regular expression drawn out as a constant. It appears that %config gets some tainted data and is itself being marked entirely tainted, which may prevent using regular expressions contained in it for untainting other data. I'm using Perl 5.8.8.