Pentesting MCP Servers Checklist
by appsecco
A practical, community-driven checklist for pentesting MCP servers. Covers traffic analysis, tool-call behavior, namespace abuse, auth flows, and remote server risks. Maintained by Appsecco and licensed for remixing.
No known CVEs
CC-BY-4.0 license
Stale
Last commit 198d ago
Works with most clients
Transport: stdio, sse
4 tools · ~126 tok
Grade A · 0.1% of 200K ctx
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Pentesting MCP Servers Checklist is an MCP server that a practical, community-driven checklist for pentesting MCP servers. Covers traffic analysis, tool-call behavior, namespace abuse, auth flows, and remote server risks. Maintained by Appsecco and licensed for remixing. Its tool list has not been published yet over stdio and sse, requires no API key, and scores 59/100 on MCPpedia's security, maintenance and efficiency rubric.
Step 1
Install in your client
Config is the same across clients - only the file and path differ.
CD
Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse · Node 18+
Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"pentesting-mcp-servers-checklist": {
"url": "<see-readme-for-url>"
}
}
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What Pentesting Mcp Servers Checklist does
A practical, community-driven checklist for pentesting Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. This guide covers local and remote MCP server risks, traffic analysis, tool-call behaviors, context boundaries, authorization flows, and unsafe code paths.
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OSV.devNo known CVEs.
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~126 tokens total
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Pentesting Mcp Servers Checklist safe to use?
- Pentesting Mcp Servers Checklist has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. Authentication requirements were not detected automatically - check the project's documentation before connecting in a shared environment. Licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
- How do I install Pentesting Mcp Servers Checklist?
- Pentesting Mcp Servers Checklist is a hosted remote MCP server - there is no local package to install. Configure your MCP client to connect to its endpoint instead of running it locally.
- What can Pentesting Mcp Servers Checklist do?
- Pentesting Mcp Servers Checklist provides 4 tools: Appsecco, Contribute, License, Maintainers. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
- What AI clients work with Pentesting Mcp Servers Checklist?
- Pentesting Mcp Servers Checklist is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse transport.
- Is Pentesting Mcp Servers Checklist actively maintained?
- Pentesting Mcp Servers Checklist is less actively maintained - last commit was 198 days ago. It has 42 GitHub stars.
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