diff --git a/src/pages/api/configs/tryPassword.tsx b/src/pages/api/configs/tryPassword.tsx
index 381845abf..1632985ab 100644
--- a/src/pages/api/configs/tryPassword.tsx
+++ b/src/pages/api/configs/tryPassword.tsx
@@ -2,26 +2,31 @@ import Consola from 'consola';
 import { NextApiRequest, NextApiResponse } from 'next';
 
 function Post(req: NextApiRequest, res: NextApiResponse) {
-  const { tried } = req.body;
-  // Try to match the password with the PASSWORD env variable
-  if (tried === process.env.PASSWORD) {
+  const { tried, type = 'password' } = req.body;
+  // If the type of password is "edit", we run this branch to check the edit password
+  if (type === 'edit') {
+    if (tried === process.env.EDIT_MODE_PASSWORD) {
+      process.env.DISABLE_EDIT_MODE = process.env.DISABLE_EDIT_MODE === 'true' ? 'false' : 'true';
+      return res.status(200).json({
+        success: true,
+      });
+    }
+  } else if (tried === process.env.PASSWORD) {
     return res.status(200).json({
       success: true,
     });
   }
-  // Warn that there was a wrong password attempt (date : wrong password, person's IP)
   Consola.warn(
     `${new Date().toLocaleString()} : Wrong password attempt, from ${
       req.headers['x-forwarded-for']
     }`
   );
-  return res.status(200).json({
+  return res.status(401).json({
     success: false,
   });
 }
 
 export default async (req: NextApiRequest, res: NextApiResponse) => {
-  // Filter out if the request is a POST or a GET
   if (req.method === 'POST') {
     return Post(req, res);
   }