ToolTrust
C27/100
Hawstein

mcp-server-reddit

mcpmain@fb0816aa75a4

@Hawstein

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools for fetching Reddit content, including frontpage posts, subreddit information and hot posts, post details, and comments.

By Hawstein | 21 findings | Scanned 6/3/2026 | tooltrust-scanner/v0.3.13 | 177

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Risk Summary

Needs Approval

Dep Visibility plus Excessive Permissions raises enough risk that this tool should not be auto-trusted.

Potential impact: This finding indicates the tool should be reviewed before it is trusted.

Recommended action: Keep this tool behind manual approval and avoid unattended runs until the risky capabilities are narrowed or removed.

Suggested policy: keep this tool behind manual approval, do not allow unattended runs, and re-scan after narrowing risky permissions.

Security Findings (21)

  • HighAS-002

    ⚠️Excessive Permissions ×3

    tool declares network permission

    REDDIT_CREATE_REDDIT_POSTREDDIT_GET_USER_FLAIRREDDIT_SEARCH_ACROSS_SUBREDDITS

    Fix: Tool requests broad permissions (exec/fs/network). Validate input parameters using Enums where possible, and restrict file system operations to explicit allowed directories.

  • MediumAS-002

    ⚠️Excessive Permissions ×4

    tool declares fs permission

    REDDIT_CREATE_REDDIT_POSTREDDIT_DELETE_REDDIT_COMMENTREDDIT_DELETE_REDDIT_POST

    tool declares db permission

    REDDIT_SEARCH_ACROSS_SUBREDDITS

    Fix: Tool requests broad permissions (exec/fs/network). Validate input parameters using Enums where possible, and restrict file system operations to explicit allowed directories.

  • LowAS-011

    ℹ️Missing Rate-Limit / Timeout ×3

    tool performs network or execution operations but declares no rate-limit, timeout, or retry configuration

    REDDIT_CREATE_REDDIT_POSTREDDIT_GET_USER_FLAIRREDDIT_SEARCH_ACROSS_SUBREDDITS

    Fix: Declare explicit rate-limit, timeout, and retry configuration for all network and execution tools. Implement exponential back-off and surface resource state to the calling agent.

  • LowAS-002

    ⚠️Excessive Permissions

    REDDIT_SEARCH_ACROSS_SUBREDDITS:tool declares http permission

    Fix: Tool requests broad permissions (exec/fs/network). Validate input parameters using Enums where possible, and restrict file system operations to explicit allowed directories.

  • InfoAS-014

    ℹ️Dependency Inventory Unavailable ×10

    Tool did not expose metadata.dependencies or repo_url, so supply-chain coverage is limited.

    REDDIT_CREATE_REDDIT_POSTREDDIT_DELETE_REDDIT_COMMENTREDDIT_DELETE_REDDIT_POSTREDDIT_EDIT_REDDIT_COMMENT_OR_POSTREDDIT_GET_USER_FLAIRREDDIT_POST_REDDIT_COMMENTREDDIT_RETRIEVE_POST_COMMENTSREDDIT_RETRIEVE_REDDIT_POSTREDDIT_RETRIEVE_SPECIFIC_COMMENTREDDIT_SEARCH_ACROSS_SUBREDDITS

    Fix: Review and remediate the identified issue.

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$ tooltrust-scanner scan --server "npx -y mcp-server-reddit"

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