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CVE-2025-58444

The MCP inspector is a developer tool for testing and debugging MCP servers. A cross-site scripting issue was reported i

The MCP inspector is a developer tool for testing and debugging MCP servers. A cross-site scripting issue was reported in versions of the MCP Inspector local development tool prior to 0.16.6 when connecting to untrusted remote MCP servers with a malicious redirect URI. This could be leveraged to interact directly with the inspector proxy to trigger arbitrary command execution.

Users are advised to update to 0.16.6 to resolve this issue.

EPSS 0.00048
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npm @modelcontextprotocol/inspector HIGH fixed in 0.16.6

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Published to NVD08 Sep 2025 · 10:15 PM
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Exploitation
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