bypassing-authentication-with-forced-browsing

bypassing-authentication-with-forced-browsing is a skill for Claude Code from 26zl/cybersec-toolkit. It costs 39 tokens per session (2,737 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to checking whether hidden web pages, files, APIs, or administration screens can be opened without the required login. Forced browsing means trying known or discovered URLs that are not linked in the interface.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it in authorized security assessments to enumerate paths and compare access for logged-in and logged-out users.
Why use it?
It helps find inconsistent authentication controls, exposed backups, configuration files, debug pages, and unprotected sensitive endpoints.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Part of the cybersec-toolkit plugin — 197 skills, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it in authorized security assessments to enumerate paths and compare access for logged-in and logged-out users.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/26zl/cybersec-toolkit/bypassing-authentication-with-forced-browsing
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add 26zl/cybersec-toolkit --skill bypassing-authentication-with-forced-browsing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/26zl/cybersec-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cybersec-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 197 skills, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,737 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Privilege Escalation · line 66
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 200
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00039 $0.02737
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01368
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00547
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00274

Measured 9d ago against content hash 1c33fc046251, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

bypassing-authentication-with-forced-browsing scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/agent.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code} /actuator/$endpoint\n" \
Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.claude/skills/bypassing-authentication-with-forced-browsing/SKILL.md · 285 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 285 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Bypassing Authentication with Forced Browsing

When to Use

  • During authorized penetration tests to discover hidden or unprotected administrative pages
  • When testing whether authentication is consistently enforced across all application endpoints
  • For identifying backup files, configuration files, and debug interfaces left exposed in production
  • When assessing access control on API endpoints that should require authentication
  • During security audits to validate that all sensitive resources enforce session validation

Prerequisites

  • Authorization: Written penetration testing agreement covering directory enumeration
  • ffuf: Fast web fuzzer (go install github.com/ffuf/ffuf/v2@latest)
  • Gobuster: Directory brute-force tool (apt install gobuster)
  • Burp Suite: For intercepting and analyzing requests and responses
  • Wordlists: SecLists collection (git clone https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists.git)
  • Target access: Network connectivity and valid test credentials for authenticated comparison

Workflow

Step 1: Enumerate Hidden Directories and Files

Use ffuf or Gobuster to discover paths not linked in the application's navigation.

# Directory enumeration with ffuf
ffuf -u https://target.example.com/FUZZ \
  -w /usr/share/seclists/Discovery/Web-Content/raft-medium-directories.txt \
  -mc 200,301,302,403 \
  -fc 404 \
  -o results-dirs.json -of json \
  -t 50 -rate 100

# File enumeration with common extensions
ffuf -u https://target.example.com/FUZZ \
  -w /usr/share/seclists/Discovery/Web-Content/raft-medium-files.txt \
  -e .php,.asp,.aspx,.jsp,.html,.js,.json,.xml,.bak,.old,.txt,.cfg,.conf,.env \
  -mc 200,301,302,403 \
  -fc 404 \
  -o results-files.json -of json \
  -t 50 -rate 100

# Gobuster for directory enumeration
gobuster dir -u https://target.example.com \
  -w /usr/share/seclists/Discovery/Web-Content/directory-list-2.3-medium.txt \
  -s "200,204,301,302,307,403" \
  -x php,asp,aspx,jsp,html \
  -o gobuster-results.txt \
  -t 50

Read the full file on GitHub · 285 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 285 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 1c33fc046251

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bypassing-authentication-with-forced-browsing is a skill published in the GitHub repository 26zl/cybersec-toolkit (54 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,737 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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