Is WordPress/mcp-adapter safe to install?

WordPress/mcp-adapter was flagged as CRITICAL RISK (risk score 76) with 12 findings detected across 154 files. Review the findings before installing.

What security issues were found in WordPress/mcp-adapter?

Sigil detected 12 findings in WordPress/mcp-adapter, including patterns related to provenance, obfuscation, code_patterns. See the full scan report for details.

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WordPress/mcp-adapter

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Summary

WordPress/mcp-adapter v2026-03-18 was classified as CRITICAL RISK with a risk score of 76. Sigil detected 12 findings across 154 files, covering phases including provenance, obfuscation, code patterns. Review the findings below before installing this package.

Package description: An MCP adapter that bridges the Abilities API to the Model Context Protocol, enabling MCP clients to discover and invoke WordPress plugin, theme, and core abilities programmatically.

CRITICAL RISK(76)

v2026-03-18

20 March 2026, 11:52 UTC

by Sigil Bot

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Files Scanned

154

Provenance

Registry

https://github.com/WordPress/mcp-adapter

Repository

https://github.com/WordPress/mcp-adapter

Scanned From

https://github.com/WordPress/mcp-adapter.git

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