Critical MCP vulnerability in nginx-UI now actively exploited in the wild

The popular nginx-UI tool, with over 11,000 stars on GitHub and 430,000 Docker pulls, is missing authentication middleware.

Kiera Fields

Apr 16, 2026 - 2 min read

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