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Context7 MCP documentation-server prompt injection (CVE-2026-75130)

Disclosed vulnerability18 Aug 2026

A real NVD-tracked prompt-injection CVE in a mainstream MCP server, versus prior PoC and benchmark work in the library, demonstrating the low-privilege-server to high-privilege-agent trust-delegation gap and the critical-CVE-with-no-documented-fix problem in the MCP ecosystem. CVSS and affected version are per NVD.

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🔗One Click, Permanent Trust

An 'Ask AI' button quietly plants a permanent 'trusted source' rule in your assistant's memory

📧The Email That Gave Orders

A support email hides instructions — and the assistant obeys them

🕵️Lies in the Loop

A poisoned issue makes the agent lie to the human who approves its actions

🏭Poisoning the Agent Factory

Compromise the pipeline that builds agents, and every new worker is born malicious

🧩Summarise This, Run That

An auto-approving coding agent reads a poisoned page — and executes code it never should have

🪤The Bug Report That Ran Code

A fake Sentry error report hijacks a developer's coding agent into running a shell command

📼The Compromised Flight Recorder

The forensic record is itself the attack surface — an agent's log is poisoned, then quietly rewritten

👻The Email That Rewrote Its Memory

A newsletter the user asked to summarise quietly writes a false 'fact' into the agent's long-term memory — and it detonates weeks later

👁️The Invisible Webpage Command

A shopping page tells the agent to do something the user never asked for

🕵️The Link That Hired an Insider

One click provisions an attacker-configured agent inside your own workspace

🕵️The Logs That Lied

An attacker plants prompt injection in the audit trail — so the LLM that hunts them erases the evidence

🧠The Memory That Wouldn't Die

A single poisoned document plants a standing instruction that survives every reset

📡The Message in Morse

Encoded public text is laundered across an agent handoff into an on-chain transfer

🔓The Model That Forgot to Say No

A cost-saving open-weights swap quietly ships a model with its safety surgically removed

🖼️The Picture That Whispered

A screenshot that's harmless at full size becomes an order once the system shrinks it

💤The Sleeper

A capable third-party model that behaves perfectly — until it sees the trigger

🔌The Tool With a Hidden Agenda

A trusted MCP email tool quietly BCCs every message to an attacker

🛡️The Watcher Watched

The eval gate that was supposed to catch the agent is itself the thing being attacked

🪪The Worker Who Spoke for the Boss

A poisoned web page hijacks a research agent — and the planner acts on its behalf

🖼️Zero-Click Leak by Picture

An inbox summary quietly ships a secret to an attacker's server

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