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@respira/wordpress-mcp-server@8.3.20

WordPress MCP server + companion plugin giving AI native access to page builder content, not just the REST API. 220 tools, 325 with WooCommerce, 17 page builders and the Site Editor. Element-level edits, full page creation, HTML to builder conversion, sna

AI Security Review

scanned 12d ago · by lpm-firewall-ai

The manifest has no install lifecycle hook, and the inspected agent configuration changes require explicitly running setup with an install token. Network access is used to retrieve package-aligned configuration; no concrete malicious behavior was established.

Static reason

No blocking static signals were detected.; previous stored version diff introduced dangerous source

Trigger

A user directly runs the setup or skill-install command.

Impact

These actions configure the user's selected client or install package-provided skills; the inspected sources do not establish an unconsented install-time mutation or credential exfiltration.

Mechanism

Setup fetches token-scoped Respira configuration and merges the named server entry; the skill installer copies bundled skills to its selected destination.

AI rationale

Evidence

dist/config.jsdist/install-skills.jsdist/setup.jsdist/server.jspackage.json

Network endpoints1

www.respira.press

Decision evidence

public snapshot

AI called this Clean at 91.0% confidence as Benign with low false-positive risk.

Evidence for AI clean decision

package.json identifies the package and version, exposes server and setup command-line entry points, and declares no install lifecycle hooks.
dist/config.js reads WordPress URL and API key settings from environment variables for configuration; its cited target discusses configuration precedence.
dist/install-skills.js defaults to a Claude skills directory and accepts a destination option; its cited target shows argument parsing.
The skills installer copies bundled skills only when its command runs, and skips existing files unless forced.
dist/setup.js targets client configuration files; its CLI handler runs setup only when directly invoked.
The explicit setup command fetches token-scoped configuration from the Respira website and merges the named server configuration into the selected client file; dist/server.js uses a bounded process listing command.

Evidence against

Behavioral surface

Source

ChildProcessCryptoEnvironmentVarsFilesystemNetwork

Source & flagged code

6 flagged

dist/install-skills.jsView file

Lines 20-60javascript

20import * as path from 'path';

21import * as os from 'os';

22import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';

23const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);

24const __dirname = path.dirname(__filename);

25// Resolve the bundled skills directory relative to the compiled JS.

26// dist/install-skills.js -> ../skills (sibling to dist/ inside the package)

27const BUNDLED_SKILLS_DIR = path.resolve(__dirname, '..', 'skills');

28const c = {

29 reset: '\x1b[0m',

30 bold: '\x1b[1m',

31 dim: '\x1b[2m',

32 red: '\x1b[31m',

33 green: '\x1b[32m',

34 yellow: '\x1b[33m',

35 blue: '\x1b[34m',

36 cyan: '\x1b[36m',

37};

38function parseArgs(argv) {

39 const opts = {

40 dest: path.join(os.homedir(), '.claude', 'skills'),

41 force: false,

42 help: false,

43 };

44 for (let i = 0; i < argv.length; i++) {

45 const arg = argv[i];

46 if (arg === '--help' || arg === '-h') {

Low

Ai Review Evidence

dist/install-skills.js defaults to a Claude skills directory and accepts a destination option; its cited target shows argument parsing.

dist/install-skills.jsView on unpkg · L40

47 opts.help = true;

48 }

49 else if (arg === '--force' || arg === '-f') {

50 opts.force = true;

51 }

52 else if (arg === '--dest' || arg === '-d') {

53 const next = argv[i + 1];

54 if (!next || next.startsWith('-')) {

55 console.error(`${c.red}error:${c.reset} --dest requires a path argument`);

56 process.exit(2);

57 }

58 opts.dest = path.resolve(next);

59 i++;

60 }

•Manifest-trigger-reachable source links an external AI-agent control path to a behavior-bearing write operation. const bundled_skills_dir = path.resolve(__dirname, '..', 'skills'); const c = { reset: '\x1b[0m', bold: '\x1b[1m', dim: '\x1b[2m', red: '\x1b[31m', green: '\x1b[32m', yellow: '\x1b[33m', blue: '\x1b[34m', cyan: '\x1b[36m', }; function parseargs(argv) { const opts = { dest: path.join(os.homedir(), '.claude', 'skills'), force: false, help: false, }; for (let i = 0; i < argv.length; i++) { const arg = argv[i]; if (arg === '--help' || arg === '-h') { opts.help = true; } else if (arg === '--force' || arg === '-f') { opts.force = true; } else if (

High

Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation

Manifest-trigger-reachable source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

dist/install-skills.jsView on unpkg

dist/config.js#virtual:normalized:round1View file

•stage = ast_semantic_analysis; reason = ast_parse_error; limitedFiles = 2

High

Semantic Analysis Limited

A bounded semantic-analysis stage reached its safety limit; remaining detectors completed, but this package requires AI review.

dist/config.js#virtual:normalized:round1View on unpkg

dist/server.jsView file

•matchType = previous_version_dangerous_delta matchedPackage = @respira/wordpress-mcp-server@8.3.24 matchedIdentity = npm:[redacted]:8.3.24 similarity = 0.909 summary = stored previous version shares package body but lacks this dangerous source file

High

Previous Version Dangerous Delta

This package version adds a dangerous source file absent from the previous stored version; route for source-aware review.

dist/server.jsView on unpkg

package.jsonView file

Lines 1-21json

2 "name": "@respira/wordpress-mcp-server",

3 "version": "8.3.20",

4 "mcpName": "io.github.webmyc/respira-wordpress",

5 "description": "WordPress MCP server + companion plugin giving AI native access to page builder content, not just the REST API. 220 tools, 325 with WooCommerce, 17 page builders and the Site Editor. Element-level edits, full page creation, HTML to builder conversion, snapshots and rollback on every write. MCP 2026-07-28 with legacy-client support. New in 8.3: Design Direction, one design system per site, applied to native builder stores, checked against the rendered page, with a live preview link for the Art Direction dashboard."

dist/config.jsView file

Lines 756-796javascript

756 * Resolution order is RESPIRA_CONFIG_B64, then RESPIRA_CONFIG_FILE, then

757 * ~/.respira/config.json. Only the winner matters, and until now nothing

758 * reported which one won. That gap is the common factor behind three separate

759 * customer incidents whose mechanisms were all different: a redeem that wrote a

Source & flagged code

6 flagged · loading source

dist/install-skills.jsView file

High

Trigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutation

Manifest-trigger-reachable source writes behavior-bearing configuration into a user or project AI-agent control surface.

dist/install-skills.jsView on unpkg

40'.claude', 'skills'), force: false, help: false, }; for (let i = 0; i < argv.length; i++) { const arg = argv[i]; if (arg === '--help' || arg

Low

Ai Review Evidence

dist/install-skills.js defaults to a Claude skills directory and accepts a destination option; its cited target shows argument parsing.

dist/install-skills.jsView on unpkg · L40

Findings

3 High2 Medium7 Low

HighTrigger Reachable External Ai Agent Control Surface Mutationdist/install-skills.js

HighSemantic Analysis Limiteddist/config.js#virtual:normalized:round1

HighPrevious Version Dangerous Deltadist/server.js

MediumNetwork

MediumEnvironment Vars

LowScripts Present

LowFilesystem

LowHigh Entropy Strings

LowUrl Strings

LowSuspicious Lifecycle Evidencepackage.json

LowAi Review Evidencedist/config.js

LowAi Review Evidencedist/install-skills.js

Affected versions and remediation

This report applies to @respira/wordpress-mcp-server@8.3.20.

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Evidence last updated: 2026-10-11 04:13:05.742Z (UTC).

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