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Security2026-09-26 · source-backed
CVE-2026-96524 (CVSS 8.8), one of three NVD published September 26 against the "MCP Server for WordPress" plugin before 1.8.2. A crafted page visited by a logged-in admin creates an administrator account through the REST API. The other two let Contributor-role users change site-wide workflows and read private post titles. Fixed September 23, and only about 200 active installs, so the direct blast radius is tiny. The bug class applies to any site-hosted MCP bridge using cookie auth.
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CVE-2026-90474, published September 12 at CVSS 7.6, is an authentication bypass in MCPHub's embedded OAuth 2.0 authorization server: client authentication is off by default and PKCE enforcement is optional (NVD). Two days after the Langflow and ContextForge cluster, the same s...
Between September 14 and September 15, NVD published seven entries hitting MCP infrastructure. I read all of them expecting to find something clever. There's nothing clever in any of them. CVE-2026-57124, 9.8, published September 14. PraisonAI's default UI exposes POST /api/mc...
The trick is one line in a file you never read. Manifold Security published eight findings across seven coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok Build, Qwen Code, goose, Hermes Agent) that all reduce to the same mechanism. A repository's own .git/config sets core.fsmoni...
Go look at your ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md right now. Mine has internal package names, a build command with a host in it, and notes about which credentials live where. I wrote it assuming exactly one reader. RuntimeWire published traced request captures on August 9 showing Muse Code...
Full 10.0. Network vector, low complexity, no authentication, no user interaction, high impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability. CVE-2026-79696, published September 9, is a code injection flaw in adk web affecting Google's Agent Development Kit for Python 2.0.0 t...
The Model Context Protocol has a security problem that's no longer theoretical — it's statistical. Between January and February 2026, researchers filed 30+ CVEs against MCP servers, clients, and infrastructure. One package with nearly 500,000 downloads carried a CVSS 9.6 RCE....
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