You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.

I just tried installing it on another site and there’s no error. I have not much time for further analysis, but here’s a list of the other active plugins, perhaps there’s a plugin your plugin doesn’t like:

| tinymce-advanced | active | none | 5.9.2 | | off |
| classic-editor | active | none | 1.6.7 | | off |
| contact-form-7 | active | none | 6.0.3 | | off |
| contact-form-7-dynamic-text-extension | active | none | 5.0.2 | | off |
| display-posts-shortcode | active | none | 3.0.3 | | off |
| elementor | active | none | 3.27.3 | | off |
| embed-any-document | active | none | 2.7.5 | | off |
| ocean-extra | active | none | 2.4.4 | | off |
| host-webfonts-local | active | none | 5.9.1 | | off |
| pdf-embedder | active | none | 4.9.0 | | off |
| sermon-manager-for-wordpress | active | none | 2.30.0 | | off |
| simple-301-redirects | active | none | 2.0.11 | | off |
| revslider | active | none | 6.7.28 | | off |
| sticky-menu-or-anything-on-scroll | active | none | 2.33 | | off |
| the-events-calendar | active | none | 6.10.1 | | off |
| the-events-calendar-shortcode | active | none | 3.0.1 | | off |
| ultimate-category-excluder | active | none | 1.7 | | off |
| updraftplus | active | none | 1.25.1 | | off |
| wordfence | active | none | 8.0.3 | | off |
| honeypot | active | none | 2.2.06 | | off |
| wp-show-posts | active | none | 1.1.6 | | off |
| duplicate-post | active | none | 4.5 | | off |

For us, the error was caused by WSAL not being able to find the wp_options setting “wsal_built-in-notifications”.

We created and inserted dummy serialized data into key directly in db for affected sites and it worked again.
a:6:{s:26:"daily_summary_notification";b:0;s:19:"daily_email_address";s:0:"";s:31:"daily_send_empty_summary_emails";b:0;s:27:"weekly_summary_notification";b:0;s:20:"weekly_email_address";s:0:"";s:32:"weekly_send_empty_summary_emails";b:0;}

Hopefully this will be fixed in next update.

Hello @bundfegadmin and @tigermediamao

We are aware of this issue via other tickets and we are looking into it. We should be able to provide you with a patch within the next few hours. If you confirm the fix, we can release it as an update.

Hello everyone!

I’m really sorry to hear about this issue!

This seems to only happen once, right after installing the most recent update, and not for everyone, so really strange indeed. We managed however to track down some potential causes of this behavior and we are working on a fix as we speak,

In the meantime, I’ve identified a temporary workaround that might help:

?? After seeing the “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” message, disabling then re-enabling back the plugin will solve the problem and you should be able to see the WordPress login form afterwards.

I hope this helps for now! I truly appreciate your patience and cooperation, and I’ll keep you posted on the fix.

How could I disable the plugin? I cannot login via /wp-admin and wp cli doesn’t work either. I renamed the plugin folder to wp-security-audit-log.broken and back again, but this didn’t do the trick.

@bundfegadmin if you rename the plugin folder name inside wp-content/plugins -> enter the site -> rename back to original name, it will give you same result as disable / enable.

Ok, but that I did. That didn’t fix it, I think. But I have really no big problem. I just have one page and can easily wait for the update. I just wanted to share the problem ?? I have bigger problems at hand ??

Hello again @bundfegadmin and @tigermediamao!

I’m really sorry that the previous suggestion didn’t resolve the issue for you, Chris.

On a positive note, we’ve worked on a fix that I’m confident will address the problem. This is a patched build of the latest 5.3.0 version.

If the plugin is currently disabled via WP CLI or naturally, without renaming it’s folder name:

1?? Download the patched build from this link:
2?? Upload and replace the current version with the patched build above.
3?? Reactivate the plugin—everything should work as expected.

If the plugin folder was renamed in order to disable the plugin:

1?? Upload the patched build as you would with a new plugin installation and activate it.
2?? Confirm the issue is now fixed by trying to access the /wp-admin page when our plugin is active.
3?? In case you are seeing two instances of our plugin now (reference example) here,, you might want to remove the duplicate WP Activity Log (the one which was previously disabled by renaming the folder)

That should resolve the issue, and nothing should be affected! Let me know how it goes, and I appreciate your patience and cooperation.

On my site everythings fine now, thanks a lot.

I am glad to read these updates. Happy all is resolved.

May I ask you for a favour? Please spare a minute to rate our plugin and service. These ratings really help the free plugin.

Thanks a lot and have a great day.