[Plugin: Better WP Security] You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page

Thank you for responding.
I can access the plugin dashboard. But I didnt quit understand where the links would be other than at the top.

In the dashboard there is a list of items, green, amber, blue & red. Pick one that you haven’t enabled that says ‘correct it here’ (or similar) at the end of the line…. It is a text link to the appropriate page… Try a few different ones.

If that doesn’t work, uninstall and re-install the plugin

Thanks, I really appreciate your response.
I will try that! I already uninstalled and reinstalled

I also installed it on 2 other sites and it is working fine.
Probably a weird setting somewhere.

Hi,

I’m having this same problem on numerous sites and am totally baffled.

I installed the plugin on a whopping 50 new sites (all identically set up) which I am using for test purposes yesterday.

The settings I used were the basic level of protection with the additional options of File Change notification, activation of the Hack Repair list, the removal of user id 1 and hiding the admin panel.

Last night I had verified that everything was working and in particular checked that the new slugs I had created for the admin panel were working and that the sites were not accessible from /wp-admin when logged out.

This morning I accidentally accessed one of them by going to /wp-admin and it let me log in from there! I thought this was a bid odd and went into the plugin to check the settings, it is still showing that the admin panel is supposed to be hidden, however when I click on any tab whatsoever I get the “you do not have sufficient permissions” message, I am logged in using the one and only admin user name which currently exists and nothing else has changed since yesterday. I then tried half a dozen of the other sites and the problem is exactly the same in all of them. I have tried deactivating and reactivating the plugin which makes no difference. I had not installed any extra plugins since Better WP yesterday so there is nothing I have could have done to make it suddenly behave in this way.

I don’t have a caching plugin installed as someone had suggested may have been the problem above.

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

OK, some more information on my post above.

I’ve now discovered that the “You do not have sufficient permissions” message is being displayed only when I try and access the plugin settings by going via Plugins> Installed Plugins> Better WP Security settings.

If I access the settings area from the left hand “Security” panel I do not get this message and am able to access and change the settings.

What is also happening is that if I re-access the settings via the Security panel, I can then log out of my site and log back in again and the slugs I created for the ‘hidden admin’ appear to have been re-activated (ie I can once again not log in by going to /wp-admin and only with the slug I had chosen). It would appear that as a quick fix to this problem I am going to have to log in to all 50 sites, access the plugin settings again via the “Security” area to effectively re-set the hidden admin area.

Obviously this is a massive pain and may only be temporarily effective given what has already happened.

So, it looks like there is definitely a bug with this plug in (and one which causes a security risk ironically)

Would be grateful if any of the developers could comment or investigate!

Cheers

Gill

hey gillcbarker thanx for d info, atleast now until d bug is fixed we have an option to make changes to d settings of d plugin.Thanx dude

Same permissions issue here.

Also the menu item Secutity is not visible in my admin menu. Any thoughts on that?

I also getting this bug. I got this after renaming my DB tables (automatic function in this plugin). After the change i get this message “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.” Therefor i can’t get in the admin section, nothing at all, not even my own profile.

I changed the database tables back to the originals but still no good.

Anyone has solved this bug? Don’t know what to do anymore…

[OPEN]
wp-config.php

[FIND]
define( 'DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true );

[REPLACE]
#define( 'DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true );

You’ll probably need to log out then in again before the changes to wp-config.php work.

That’s what I found anyway ??

I also had this issue and can advise that gillcbarker’s solution does the trick. There must be an issue with the ‘settings’ link via the plugin area. Thanks for sharing the solution.

I’ve had the same issue on two sites. If I clicked on the tab options, I get the “You do not have sufficient permissions” error.

However, if I click on “Click here to fix” on the dashboard, I can then navigate all the tab options without any issues.

Also, if I navigate to the options via the left tool bar – no issue.

It only seems to be when I go to the options via Plugins -> Better WP Security | Settings

Strange bug.. Still I must say I love this plugin! Keep up the great work! ??

In my case, I had the problem when I installed WP Minify. However, WP Super Cache have had no issue with Better WP Security up to now.

I deactivated WP Minify and voila I can access all the features without the nagging “you have no permission” message!

Hope it helps.

Solution: Use the left sidebar “settings” link rather than the Plugin “settings” link.

We had a similar problem. The difference seems to be:
If you go to the WP Plugins panel, and scroll down to Better WP Security, and click “Settings” there— then if you try to go from tab to tab, you get the “You do not have permissions” error.

BUT, if you go to the WP sidebar “Settings” on the left, first, then go from tab to tab, there is no problem.

So there must be something different about the plugin’s “Plugin” panel’s “settings” link, than the usual left sidebar “Settings” link.