Tests whether a user or role has specific access rights to a Sitecore item by its ID.
AI agents call security-test-item-acl-by-id to retrieve information from SitecoreMCP without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
This tool performs a read-only permission check operation. It retrieves ACL (Access Control List) information for an item to verify access rights, with no side effects. The action is purely informational—testing/querying the current state of permissions—not creating, modifying, deleting, or executing code. Even in a security context, permission testing itself is a safe read operation.
From the tool's definition Tool name contains 'test' and description states it 'Tests whether a user or role has specific access rights' — it queries and retrieves access control information without modifying, deleting, or executing operations.
Attacks that exploit this kind of access
Tests whether a user or role has specific access rights to a Sitecore item by its ID. It is categorised as a Read tool in the SitecoreMCP MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Sitecore MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for security-test-item-acl-by-id: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches SitecoreMCP. Nothing to install.
security-test-item-acl-by-id is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the security-test-item-acl-by-id rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for security-test-item-acl-by-id. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
security-test-item-acl-by-id is provided by the Sitecore MCP server (ramseur/mcp-sitecore-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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