Internal rest_do_request calls for posts/CPTs with status of anything but "published" should not need authentication

[mkormendy]

If I am performing an internal rest_do_request() call to a local REST endpoint, I shouldn't need to provide authentication to access posts or custom post types with a status of anything other than "published".

It's an INTERNAL request, it should ALREADY be authenticated by the code running internally already.

[TimothyBlynJacobs]

Thanks for the ticket @mkormendy.

I appreicate while this would be helpful for you. But this is simply not how the REST API has been designed. An internal request shouldn't behave differently from a global one. Changing that at this point would be a security issue. For instance, the Batch API utilizes rest_do_request and relies on endpoints to perform their authentication checks.