WordPress Capabilities: edit_user vs edit_users
I found a few references to edit_user as a capability, one of which is this: // Allow user to edit itself if ( ‘edit_user’ == $cap && isset( $args[0] ) && $user_id == $args[0] ) break; http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.5.2/wp-includes/capabilities.php#L1005 I believe the comment in that block of code answers this question. Per @PatJ, it looks like map_meta_cap … Read more