A disclosed remote code execution flaw in Microsoft's Playwright-MCP server lets any connected AI agent run arbitrary JavaScript, putting agentic deployments at immediate risk.
The critical RCE disclosure is damaging not because the vulnerability is obscure but because it is written into the tool's own documentation. The README describes browser_run_code as accepting 'a JavaScript function containing Playwright code to execute' — the attack surface is the feature description. Any AI agent with access to the MCP server can invoke this tool with a payload, and the server will execute it.
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