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mcp-web-hound npm v1.10.16 Source verified

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Trust grade
A
94/100
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A · 94/100
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A Why this grade 100 − 6.3 = 94/100

Every server starts at 100. These are the exact deductions the deterministic engine applied — each one reproducible, none of it an opinion or an LLM's guess:

PointsWhat was foundCategory
−6.3 Untrusted input concatenated into a command sink MTC-SRC-009 injection

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Findings 4

medium Hardcoded egress to an external endpoint (dist/search/providers/exa.js)MTC-SRC-003

In the server's implementation (`dist/search/providers/exa.js:17`): A hardcoded outbound call to a fixed external host inside server code is a classic exfiltration/telemetry channel — especially paired with reads of local data. This is read from the code itself — not from the tool description — so a poisoned server cannot hide it behind honest-looking metadata.

Evidence: fetch('https://api.exa.ai/search'

Fix: Review this call path: confirm it never receives unsanitized tool input, constrain it, or remove it. Treat a server whose code reaches these sinks as high-capability regardless of what its tools claim.

Location: server dist/search/providers/exa.js

medium Hardcoded egress to an external endpoint (dist/search/providers/firecrawl.js)MTC-SRC-003

In the server's implementation (`dist/search/providers/firecrawl.js:17`): A hardcoded outbound call to a fixed external host inside server code is a classic exfiltration/telemetry channel — especially paired with reads of local data. This is read from the code itself — not from the tool description — so a poisoned server cannot hide it behind honest-looking metadata.

Evidence: fetch('https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/search'

Fix: Review this call path: confirm it never receives unsanitized tool input, constrain it, or remove it. Treat a server whose code reaches these sinks as high-capability regardless of what its tools claim.

Location: server dist/search/providers/firecrawl.js

medium Hardcoded egress to an external endpoint (dist/search/providers/tavily.js)MTC-SRC-003

In the server's implementation (`dist/search/providers/tavily.js:17`): A hardcoded outbound call to a fixed external host inside server code is a classic exfiltration/telemetry channel — especially paired with reads of local data. This is read from the code itself — not from the tool description — so a poisoned server cannot hide it behind honest-looking metadata.

Evidence: fetch('https://api.tavily.com/search'

Fix: Review this call path: confirm it never receives unsanitized tool input, constrain it, or remove it. Treat a server whose code reaches these sinks as high-capability regardless of what its tools claim.

Location: server dist/search/providers/tavily.js

medium Untrusted input concatenated into a command sink (dist/cache/semantic-cache.js)MTC-SRC-009

In the server's implementation (`dist/cache/semantic-cache.js:22`): A shell/process command assembled from concatenated or interpolated values is command injection when any part is attacker-influenced — the OWASP canonical RCE flow. Verify what reaches the interpolated value. This is read from the code itself — not from the tool description — so a poisoned server cannot hide it behind honest-looking metadata.

Evidence: exec(` CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS query_embeddings USING vec0( query_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, embedding FLOAT[${

Fix: Review this call path: confirm it never receives unsanitized tool input, constrain it, or remove it. Treat a server whose code reaches these sinks as high-capability regardless of what its tools claim.

Location: server dist/cache/semantic-cache.js

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VersionScoreFindingsEngineScanned
v1.10.16 latest A 94/100 4 1.5.0 2026-07-22

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