authz-bypass

authz-bypass is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from SecurityTalent/bugskill-ai. It costs 110 tokens per session (2,251 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of authz-bypass, MIT.

A security-testing guide for finding authentication and authorization bypasses. Authentication checks who a user is; authorization checks what that user is allowed to do.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for testing direct access to protected URLs, account and role changes, object identifiers, session swapping, and routing-related headers.
Why use it?
It helps uncover cases where protected pages or administrator actions can be reached by changing parameters, swapping sessions, or manipulating request headers.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit It is for testing direct access to protected URLs, account and role changes, object identifiers, session swapping, and routing-related headers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/securitytalent/bugskill-ai/authz-bypass
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 SecurityTalent/bugskill-ai --skill authz-bypass
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SecurityTalent/bugskill-ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 110 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,251 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.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00110 $0.02251
Opus 5.5 $0.00044 $0.00900
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00450
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00225

Measured 20d ago against content hash 74a278902e1b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

authz-bypass 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 20d ago.

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 "https://TARGET/invoice?id=12345" \
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to authz-bypass — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

Awesome-Claude-Code-Agent-Skills/03-Authentication-and-Access-Control/authz-bypass/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Authorization Bypass and IDOR

What Is Broken and Why

Access control failures occur when applications enforce authorization only at the UI layer, rely on obscurity of object identifiers, or fail to validate that the requesting session owns the referenced resource. Horizontal bypass allows users to access peer accounts' data by swapping identifiers. Vertical bypass allows low-privileged users to invoke admin-only operations by replaying high-privilege request structures with a low-privilege session. IDOR (Insecure Direct Object Reference) exposes any predictable or discoverable resource identifier as a direct handle to unauthorized data. Special request headers (X-Original-URL, X-Rewrite-URL) can override routing in some reverse proxy configurations, bypassing ACL rules applied at the path level.

Key Signals

  • Numeric or sequential IDs in URLs or parameters: invoice=12345, user=100, EventID=1000001
  • Different accounts created at similar times with adjacent IDs
  • Responses containing another user's PII, financial data, or account settings when ID swapped
  • Admin-only actions (delete, promote, deactivate) accessible via session swap
  • X-Original-URL or X-Rewrite-URL headers triggering 404 vs 403 — confirms header processing
  • X-Forwarded-For: 127.0.0.1 bypassing IP-based access restrictions to admin panels
  • GUIDs or opaque tokens that, when substituted, return another user's object
  • menuitem= or accessPage= parameters accepting values outside a user's visible menu set
  • Password change endpoint accepting user= parameter without session-ownership validation

Methodology

  1. Map object references: During application use, record every parameter that references a resource (document ID, user ID, order number, file name, menu item).
  2. Create test accounts: Register at least two accounts at different privilege levels; note all object IDs each account owns.
  3. Horizontal bypass: With Account B's session, request objects owned by Account A by substituting Account A's IDs.
  4. Vertical bypass: With low-privilege session, replay admin-only requests (delete, role change, config update) captured from an admin session.
  5. IDOR enumeration: Increment/decrement integer IDs; test adjacent values; attempt GUID prediction if UUIDs appear time-seeded.
  6. Header injection test: Send X-Original-URL: /admin and X-Rewrite-URL: /admin on a request to /; 404 response (vs 403 on direct access) confirms header support.
  7. IP spoofing header test: Send X-Forwarded-For: 127.0.0.1 on requests to IP-restricted admin endpoints; observe access control difference.
  8. POST-to-GET conversion: Test if server accepts session ID or IDOR parameter via GET when originally designed for POST.

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 lines

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. 20d ago First seen · 181 lines · 110 tokens per session scan A 74a278902e1b

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authz-bypass is a skill published in the GitHub repository SecurityTalent/bugskill-ai (13 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 110 tokens to every session and 2,251 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 100% identical to authz-bypass, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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