Is HackTricks MCP Server safe?
Probably. Read the findings first.
Use with care. Some checks failed or could not be verified.
How HackTricks MCP Server compares
Against every graded Web search MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 60/100
- higher than 13% of 3,470 Web search servers
- Tools that change things
- 0%
- typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
What its tools let an agent do: 7 read
Public scan report
scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-10-01 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
2 medium
- Code scan2 source files scanned15/25
- –Live reliabilityno gateway calls yet and no remote to proben/a
- –Tool poisoningtools not inspected (local package is not executed); not countedn/a
- Auth qualitylocal package, no credentials required12/15
- Maintenancelast push 187 days ago4/15
- Maintainer identityregistry namespace matches repository owner; GitHub account older than a year8/10
Findings (2)
- mediumnpm install lifecycle script present
install.script - mediumnpm install lifecycle script present
install.scriptpackage.json: … "start": "node dist/index.js", "postinstall": "node scripts/postinstall.js" }, "k…
Overall 60/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON
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