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CVE Vulnerability Details :
CVE-2026-44429
PUBLISHED
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Assigner Org ID-a0819718-46f1-4df5-94e2-005712e83aaa
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Published At-14 May, 2026 | 21:05
Updated At-15 May, 2026 | 14:20
Rejected At-
▼CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)
MCP Registry: Stored XSS in catalogue UI via attribute-quote breakout in publisher-controlled `websiteUrl`

The MCP Registry provides MCP clients with a list of MCP servers, like an app store for MCP servers. Prior to 1.7.7, the public catalogue UI served at GET / (file internal/api/handlers/v0/ui_index.html) is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting via the server.websiteUrl field of any published server.json. Server-side validation in internal/validators/validators.go (validateWebsiteURL) only checks that the URL parses, is absolute, and uses the https scheme; it does not reject quote characters. Client-side, the value is interpolated into a double-quoted href attribute via innerHTML, using a homegrown escapeHtml helper that performs the standard textContent → innerHTML round-trip. Per the HTML serialisation algorithm, that round-trip encodes only &, <, > and U+00A0 inside text nodes — it does not encode " or '. A literal " in websiteUrl therefore breaks out of the href attribute, allowing arbitrary on* event handlers to be appended to the same <a> element. The Content-Security-Policy on / is script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' https://cdn.tailwindcss.com, so the injected event handlers execute. Any user able to obtain a publish token (e.g. via POST /v0/auth/github-at with their own GitHub account, or POST /v0/auth/none on a deployment that has anonymous auth enabled) can plant a poisoned record visible to every visitor of the registry homepage. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.7.7.

Affected Products
Vendor
modelcontextprotocol
Product
registry
Versions
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  • < 1.7.7
Problem Types
TypeCWE IDDescription
CWECWE-79CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CWECWE-116CWE-116: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
Type: CWE
CWE ID: CWE-79
Description: CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Type: CWE
CWE ID: CWE-116
Description: CWE-116: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
Metrics
VersionBase scoreBase severityVector
4.05.1MEDIUM
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:L
Version: 4.0
Base score: 5.1
Base severity: MEDIUM
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CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:L
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https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/security/advisories/GHSA-rqv2-m695-f8j4
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Hyperlink: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/security/advisories/GHSA-rqv2-m695-f8j4
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x_refsource_CONFIRM
▼Authorized Data Publishers (ADP)
CISA ADP Vulnrichment
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https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/security/advisories/GHSA-rqv2-m695-f8j4
exploit
Hyperlink: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/security/advisories/GHSA-rqv2-m695-f8j4
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