Title: Wrong capability for settings menu
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Wrong capability for settings menu

 *  Resolved [Hassan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hassanhamm/)
 * (@hassanhamm)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-capability-for-settings-menu/)
 * Hello,
 * I noticed this plugins requires the capability `edit_pages` for access to its
   settings page. Is there any reason for this? Otherwise, all settings/options 
   pages should require the capability `manage_options` because that’s what this
   capability is there for.
 * Currently, non-admin users can easily mess with the plugin’s settings because
   they have the `edit_pages` capability. I think you might need to address this.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-history/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-history/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Pär Thernström](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eskapism/)
 * (@eskapism)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-capability-for-settings-menu/#post-3865830)
 * thanks for finding and reporting this! i just updated the plugin to fix this.
 *  Thread Starter [Hassan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hassanhamm/)
 * (@hassanhamm)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-capability-for-settings-menu/#post-3865919)
 * Hey, Pär. I just noticed that the History page under the Dashboard menu is also
   requiring the capability `edit_pages`. I suggest you change it as well; browsing
   the history and seeing who did what should be a task of admins only.

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## Tags

 * [capability](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/capability/)
 * [edit_pages](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/edit_pages/)
 * [manage_options](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/manage_options/)
 * [settings page](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/settings-page/)

 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Hassan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hassanhamm/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wrong-capability-for-settings-menu/#post-3865919)
 * Status: resolved