---
title: "Update user moderation status (Admin)"
method: PUT
path: "/api/admin/users/{id}/status"
tags: ["users", "admin"]
---

# Update user moderation status (Admin)

`PUT /api/admin/users/{id}/status`

Manually update a user's moderation status.

### Status Details:
- **status**: Allowed target states (e.g. `active`, `suspended`, `banned`).
- **note**: Required reason text recorded in the user's moderation log audit history.
- Requires Super Admin privileges.

## Path parameters

- `id` integer, required

## Request body

- object
  - `status` string, required
  - `note` string

## Response `200`

successful

## Changes

> 59 revisions in range; 8 could not be searched.

- **2026-07-13** (v1) `189b62b952ea` — 1 info
  - endpoint added
- **2026-07-13** (v1) `7db6ba099285` — 1 info
  - endpoint added
- **2023-01-10** (v1) `754f8b25f815` — 1 breaking
  - api path removed without deprecation

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/forem/apis/forem-api-v1/changes/api/admin/users/:id/status/put.md)

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