No red flags found in any of the 11 categories — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →
by DMontgomery40 · MCP Server · ★ 139
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Pentest MCP Professional penetration-testing MCP server with modern transport/auth support and expanded recon tooling. What Changed in 0.9.0 Upgraded MCP SDK to Kept MCP Inspector at the latest release () with bundled launcher Streamable HTTP is now the primary network transport () SSE is still available only as a deprecated compatibility mode Added bearer-token auth with OIDC JWKS and introspection support Added first-class tools: , , , , , , , Added report-admin tools: , Added SoW capture flow for reports using MCP elicitation () with safe template fallback Hardened command resolution so web probing uses (preferred) or validated ProjectDiscovery , avoiding Python CLI collisions Integrated bundled MCP Inspector launcher () Runtime baseline is now Node.js 22.7.5+ Added invocation metadata in new tool outputs when auth/session context is available Included Tools runJohnT
| Stars | 139 |
| Forks | 28 |
| Language | JavaScript |
| Category | MCP Server |
| License | MIT |
| Quality Score | 74.0792867332492/100 |
| Open Issues | 2 |
| Last Updated | 2026-03-23 |
| Created | 2025-04-04 |
| Platforms | mcp, node |
| Est. Tokens | ~564k |
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pentest-mcp is NOT for educational purposes: An MCP server for professional penetration testers including STDIO/HTTP/SSE support, nmap, go/dirbuster, nikto, JtR, hashcat, wordlist building, and more.. It is categorized as a MCP Server with 139 GitHub stars.
pentest-mcp is primarily written in JavaScript. It covers topics such as cybersecurity, dirbuster, gobuster.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the pentest-mcp GitHub repository at github.com/DMontgomery40/pentest-mcp. The project has 139 stars and 28 forks, indicating an active community.
pentest-mcp is released under the MIT license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
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Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.
The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.
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