Colossal Laboratories Biosciences Authentication

generated: '2026-08-09'
method: probed
source: >-
  openapi/colossal-laboratories--biosciences-content-openapi.yml (derived from
  https://colossal.com/wp-json/) plus live anonymous probes of the wp/v2, mcp and
  wp-abilities/v1 namespaces, 2026-08-09
docs: null
docs_note: >-
  Colossal publishes no authentication documentation, because it publishes no developer
  documentation at all. Everything below was observed, not read.
summary:
  types:
  - http
  anonymous_read: true
  oauth2: false
  openid_connect: false
  api_keys: false
  mutual_tls: false
schemes:
- name: applicationPassword
  type: http
  scheme: basic
  description: >-
    WordPress Application Passwords, advertised by the site at https://colossal.com/wp-json/
    under authentication.application-passwords; authorization endpoint
    https://colossal.com/wp-admin/authorize-application.php. Read operations on wp/v2 are
    anonymous.
  applies_to: every create / replace / update / delete operation in the derived OpenAPI
  issuance: >-
    Self-service only for accounts that already hold a colossal.com WordPress login. No third
    party can obtain one, so in practice this API is read-only to everyone outside Colossal.
  sources:
  - openapi/colossal-laboratories--biosciences-content-openapi.yml
  - https://colossal.com/wp-json/ (authentication.application-passwords)
- name: cookieNonce
  type: cookie
  description: >-
    The browser path — a logged-in WordPress cookie plus an X-WP-Nonce request header. Not
    usable by a server-to-server client. Evidenced by the CORS preflight allowlist, which
    includes X-WP-Nonce.
  observed: 'access-control-allow-headers: Authorization, X-WP-Nonce, Content-Disposition, Content-MD5, Content-Type'
anonymous_access:
  readable_without_credentials:
  - /wp/v2/posts (200, X-WP-Total 238)
  - /wp/v2/pages (200, X-WP-Total 59)
  - /wp/v2/media (200, X-WP-Total 990)
  - /wp/v2/categories (200, 15)
  - /wp/v2/tags (200, 156)
  - /wp/v2/users (200, 8)
  - /wp/v2/comments (200, 0)
  - /wp/v2/search (200, 297)
  - /wp/v2/taxonomies (200)
  - /wp/v2/statuses (200)
  gated_to_anonymous:
  - {path: /wp/v2/settings, status: 401, code: rest_forbidden}
  - {path: /wp-json/mcp/mcp-adapter-default-server, status: 401, code: rest_forbidden, method: 'JSON-RPC tools/list and initialize'}
  - {path: /wp-json/wp-abilities/v1/abilities, status: 401, code: rest_forbidden}
discovery:
  oauth_authorization_server: {path: /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server, status: 404}
  oauth_protected_resource: {path: /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource, status: 404}
  openid_configuration: {path: /.well-known/openid-configuration, status: 404}
  note: >-
    No OAuth or OIDC discovery document is served, so the MCP endpoint's 401 carries no
    machine-readable challenge an agent could follow. No OAuthScopes artifact is emitted —
    there is no oauth2 securityScheme and no documented scope vocabulary to derive one from.
observations:
- finding: anonymous user enumeration
  detail: >-
    GET /wp/v2/users returns all 8 contributor accounts — display name, slug and public
    author-archive URL — with no credentials. This is default WordPress behaviour rather than a
    Colossal decision, but it is the standard first step of a WordPress credential-stuffing
    attempt and is worth Colossal's attention. API Evangelist records the shape and count only
    and does not republish the identities.
  status: 200
- finding: no vulnerability-disclosure channel
  detail: >-
    /.well-known/security.txt and /security.txt both 404, and no bug-bounty or disclosure page
    exists, so there is no published route to report the item above. See
    security/colossal-laboratories--biosciences-domain-security.yml.
  status: 404