diff --git a/src/AuthorizationValidators/AuthorizationValidatorInterface.php b/src/AuthorizationValidators/AuthorizationValidatorInterface.php
index 7e49f8477..e4e441930 100644
--- a/src/AuthorizationValidators/AuthorizationValidatorInterface.php
+++ b/src/AuthorizationValidators/AuthorizationValidatorInterface.php
@@ -13,12 +13,19 @@
 
 interface AuthorizationValidatorInterface
 {
+    /**
+     * Determine the access token in the authorization header and return Token object with configured claims
+     *
+     * @param ServerRequestInterface $request
+     * @return \Lcobucci\JWT\Token
+     */
+    public function validateAuthorizationHeader(ServerRequestInterface $request);
+
     /**
      * Determine the access token in the authorization header and append OAUth properties to the request
      *  as attributes.
      *
      * @param ServerRequestInterface $request
-     *
      * @return ServerRequestInterface
      */
     public function validateAuthorization(ServerRequestInterface $request);
diff --git a/src/AuthorizationValidators/BearerTokenValidator.php b/src/AuthorizationValidators/BearerTokenValidator.php
index 6f299ce46..0f540b0fa 100644
--- a/src/AuthorizationValidators/BearerTokenValidator.php
+++ b/src/AuthorizationValidators/BearerTokenValidator.php
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ public function setPublicKey(CryptKey $key)
     /**
      * {@inheritdoc}
      */
-    public function validateAuthorization(ServerRequestInterface $request)
+    public function validateAuthorizationHeader(ServerRequestInterface $request)
     {
         if ($request->hasHeader('authorization') === false) {
             throw OAuthServerException::accessDenied('Missing "Authorization" header');
@@ -82,12 +82,8 @@ public function validateAuthorization(ServerRequestInterface $request)
                 throw OAuthServerException::accessDenied('Access token has been revoked');
             }
 
-            // Return the request with additional attributes
-            return $request
-                ->withAttribute('oauth_access_token_id', $token->getClaim('jti'))
-                ->withAttribute('oauth_client_id', $token->getClaim('aud'))
-                ->withAttribute('oauth_user_id', $token->getClaim('sub'))
-                ->withAttribute('oauth_scopes', $token->getClaim('scopes'));
+            // Return the token
+            return $token;
         } catch (\InvalidArgumentException $exception) {
             // JWT couldn't be parsed so return the request as is
             throw OAuthServerException::accessDenied($exception->getMessage());
@@ -96,4 +92,18 @@ public function validateAuthorization(ServerRequestInterface $request)
             throw OAuthServerException::accessDenied('Error while decoding to JSON');
         }
     }
+
+    /**
+     * {@inheritdoc}
+     */
+    public function validateAuthorization(ServerRequestInterface $request)
+    {
+        $token = $this->validateAuthorizationHeader($request);
+
+        return $request
+            ->withAttribute('oauth_access_token_id', $token->getClaim('jti'))
+            ->withAttribute('oauth_client_id', $token->getClaim('aud'))
+            ->withAttribute('oauth_user_id', $token->getClaim('sub'))
+            ->withAttribute('oauth_scopes', $token->getClaim('scopes'));
+    }
 }