Security Log Popup does not appear when access is denied

  • Resolved Nick Elpedes

    (@nickelpedes)


    2 years, 1 month ago

    Hey there,

    I’m having an issue when trying to figure out why I can’t access my Divi settings pages. I have the security log enabled, and any time I enter a page I have access to, it shows. However, when I try to access a page that I don’t have access to (trying to debug WHY I don’t have access to it), there is no popup. I am not sure if this is intended behavior or not, but if this is the intended behavior, please make the security log show why I don’t have access so I can debug my issue.

    Reproduction steps:

    – Turn on security log
    – Log in as a non-admin user
    – Attempt to access a page you do not have permissions to view
    – Observe security log isn’t shown

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  • Plugin Author Janis Elsts

    (@whiteshadow)

    The security log will only appear when access is blocked by this plugin. If something else prevents your access, you usually won’t get the log. For example, if your admin menu is correctly configured to allow access, but another plugin has its own custom access restrictions (separate from the admin menu), you can still be blocked, and you won’t see the security log.

    In general, if the log is enabled but you don’t see it on the “access denied” page, that usually means that the problem is not in the admin menu configuration.

    Thread Starter Nick Elpedes

    (@nickelpedes)

    I was worried that might be the case. Thank you for your response.

    Would it be possible to still see the reason that access was denied though?

    Thread Starter Nick Elpedes

    (@nickelpedes)

    This might be out of scope of the current thread topic, but most if not all of my issues have been associated with restricting access to Divi setting pages.

    Plugin Author Janis Elsts

    (@whiteshadow)

    That would be convenient, but I can’t think of a reliable way to achieve that, not even with custom code. While it’s relatively straightforward to check if a user or role has the capability associated with a menu item, plugin/theme developers can also choose to implement arbitrarily complex access requirements, and there’s no unifying standard. You would need something that can read plugin source code and figure out what’s going on, which may require human-level AI.

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