wapiti_get_cookie

What wapiti_get_cookie does on Pentester-MCP

AI agents call wapiti_get_cookie to retrieve information from Pentester-MCP without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why wapiti_get_cookie is rated Low

The 'get_cookie' function retrieves cookie data from web targets without modifying or deleting it. Despite the penetration testing context and the absence of a detailed description, the core action is data retrieval. However, severity is elevated to 'medium' rather than 'low' because cookies may contain sensitive authentication tokens or session identifiers; misuse could facilitate unauthorized access attempts.

From the tool's definition Tool name contains 'get_cookie' and is situated on a penetration testing server; the Wapiti tool is known to be a web vulnerability scanner that retrieves and analyzes HTTP cookies as part of reconnaissance and session analysis.

The rule that runs wapiti_get_cookie safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Pentester-MCP, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For wapiti_get_cookie, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "wapiti_get_cookie": {}
  }
}

Questions about wapiti_get_cookie