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MCP Server Security Risks: 7 Threats to Model Before You Connect One
Community description: A threat-model view of MCP server security risks: tool poisoning, result injection, over-scoped servers, inline secrets, confused deputies, supply chain, and config sprawl, with concrete mitigations.
Dev.to | Oct 11, 2026 | Umang Kumar
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Mitigation: review descriptions of every tool you enable, not just the server's README. A GitHub server returns an issue body; a web-fetch server returns a page; a database server returns a row someone else wrote. A server holding one powerful token serves every request the model sends it.
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