Author sees review before editor decidion is made

I’m trying to figure out if this is normal behavior or a glitch.

I am a journal manager and recently clicked “login as” for an author on a submission where a review had been submitted, but the editor did not yet make a decision.

I was surprised to see that the author is able to read the review before the editor has made a decision.

Is this normal behavior or a glitch of some kind? I feel like the review shouldn’t be accessible to the author until the editor has made a decision.

In the attached image, the Editor Decision notification is just the notification it was sent for review. In this case the Editor has not made a decision yet based on the review.

We are on 3.4.0.5

Hi @jhertzberg,

Do you know if the author has other roles associated with their account (e.g. editor, section editor) - I just wanted to rule that out, before looking further.

-Roger
PKP Team