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I scanned 200 popular MCP server packages. Here is what I found.

DEV Community: security·weiseer·5 months ago
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The MCP ecosystem has been growing fast, but the supply-chain hygiene has not kept up. MCPwn (CVE-2026-33032, CVSS 9.8) exposed 2,600+ instances. The Shai-Hulud npm worm stole MCP auth tokens from 172 packages. MCPSafe found high-severity bugs in official MCPs from Atlassian, GitHub, Cloudflare, and Microsoft. Perplexity open-sourced Bumblebee in May 2026 specifically because no good scanner existed.

So I built one. Today I'm shipping @weiseer/mcp-doctor — an open-source install-time trust gate for MCP server packages — together with the validation dataset that surfaced its first real finding.

TL;DR

npx @weiseer/mcp-doctor @some/mcp-server

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Returns PASS / WARN / BLOCK with cited evidence per signal. The full scoring rubric is open-source so you can argue with the methodology rather than trust a black-box.…

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