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.
References
| Link | Resource |
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| https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/security/advisories/GHSA-rqv2-m695-f8j4 | Exploit Mitigation Vendor Advisory |
| https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/security/advisories/GHSA-rqv2-m695-f8j4 | Exploit Mitigation Vendor Advisory |
Configurations
History
15 May 2026, 17:52
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| CVSS |
v2 : v3 : |
v2 : unknown
v3 : 5.4 |
| First Time |
Lfprojects mcp Registry
Lfprojects |
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| References | () https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/security/advisories/GHSA-rqv2-m695-f8j4 - Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory | |
| CPE | cpe:2.3:a:lfprojects:mcp_registry:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
15 May 2026, 15:16
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| References | () https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry/security/advisories/GHSA-rqv2-m695-f8j4 - |
14 May 2026, 21:16
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| New CVE |
Information
Published : 2026-05-14 21:16
Updated : 2026-05-15 17:52
NVD link : CVE-2026-44429
Mitre link : CVE-2026-44429
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-44429
JSON object : View
Products Affected
lfprojects
- mcp_registry
