WordPress · tool · fg-0099

WordPress MCP reports 'Site unreachable' when the login was rejected

Site unreachable while the site loads fine

Verified 2026-09-22 · Confirmed by 0 builders · Trust 50/100

Cause

The mcp-wordpress server labels a rejected login as an unreachable site.

Fix

Test the credentials directly against the REST API before debugging the network.

Apply

curl -u "$WP_USER:$WP_APP_PASSWORD" -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/139.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" https://example.com/wp-json/wp/v2/users/me

Affects: mcp-wordpress, July and September 2026

Have your agent know this before it fails

claude mcp add --transport http footgun https://getfootgun.com/api/mcp