Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board Authentication

generated: '2026-09-09'
method: probed
source: https://fasab.gov/wp-json/
docs: null
note: >-
  FASAB publishes no authentication documentation. This profile records what the site's own WordPress
  REST discovery document declares and what unauthenticated requests actually observed on 2026-09-09.
  The public read surface requires NO credential at all — every one of the 28 operations in
  openapi/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board-wp-content-openapi.yml returned HTTP 200 anonymously.
summary:
  types:
  - none
  - basic
  api_key_in: []
  oauth2_flows: []
  public_read: true
schemes:
- name: anonymous
  type: none
  description: >-
    The public read surface. No Authorization header, API key, cookie or nonce is required; the
    `security: [{}]` block in the derived OpenAPI reflects the observed behaviour. Verified against
    /wp/v2/posts, /wp/v2/pages, /wp/v2/media, /wp/v2/search, /wp/v2/types, /wp/v2/taxonomies and the
    route index on 2026-09-09.
  sources:
  - openapi/federal-accounting-standards-advisory-board-wp-content-openapi.yml
  evidence:
  - url: https://fasab.gov/wp-json/wp/v2/pages?per_page=1
    http_status: 200
    anonymous: true
- name: application-passwords
  type: http
  scheme: basic
  description: >-
    WordPress Application Passwords, declared by fasab.gov itself in the `authentication` object of its
    REST discovery document. Credentials are HTTP Basic (WordPress username + a generated application
    password) and are issued interactively from wp-admin. This governs the AUTHENTICATED surface only —
    the administrative and plugin namespaces that answer 401 rest_forbidden anonymously — and is
    available to FASAB site operators, not to the public. There is no self-service registration.
  authorization_endpoint: https://fasab.gov/wp-admin/authorize-application.php
  sources:
  - https://fasab.gov/wp-json/
  evidence:
  - url: https://fasab.gov/wp-json/
    http_status: 200
    field: authentication['application-passwords'].endpoints.authorization
gated_surface:
  note: Routes confirmed to require authentication (HTTP 401 rest_forbidden anonymously, 2026-09-09).
  probes:
  - {url: 'https://fasab.gov/wp-json/wp/v2/settings', http_status: 401}
  - {url: 'https://fasab.gov/wp-json/wp/v2/plugins', http_status: 401}
  - {url: 'https://fasab.gov/wp-json/wp/v2/themes', http_status: 401}
  - {url: 'https://fasab.gov/wp-json/wp/v2/block-types', http_status: 401}
  - {url: 'https://fasab.gov/wp-json/wp/v2/users/me', http_status: 401}
  - {url: 'https://fasab.gov/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/12417/revisions', http_status: 401}
  - {url: 'https://fasab.gov/wp-json/wp-abilities/v1/abilities', http_status: 401}