to work around the issue:
change line 58 of the WA_Globals/WA_Globals.php file:
eval("\$WAGLOBAL_".$value[$x][4]."='".replaceTokens($value[$x][1],$tabs)."';");
to:
eval("\$WAGLOBAL_".$value[$x][4]."='".addslashes(replaceTokens($value[$x][1],$tabs))."';");