Skipfish aborts on every wordlist I give it

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In the past I remember using SkipFish and having no issues, worked fast and gave great reports. Now I'm having a constant problem with loading any type of word list. Here's the output of The error:

skipfish web application scanner - version 2.10b
[-] PROGRAM ABORT : Wordlist '<WORD_LIST>': syntax error in line 0.

Stop location : load_keywords(), src/database.c:1198 

Happens with every word list. I tried using cat -A to check for hidden characters and removing them with tr, but that didn't help. Especially since the error starts at line 0, which I don't quite understand.
Most if not all W-lists are in txt format.
Running without a wordlist will sometimes run ok, assuming that skipfish is using its small wordlist in /usr/share/wordlists, but its hardly close to what it was capable of before.

Here's a quick look at what I'm running:

Linux kali 6.8.11-arm64 #1 SMP Kali 6.8.11-1kali2 (2024-05-30) aarch64 GNU/Linux

Let me know if any more info would be useful, Thanks !