diff --git a/x-pack/docs/en/security/authorization/privileges.asciidoc b/x-pack/docs/en/security/authorization/privileges.asciidoc
index 52c2fcd9b7e..bcfccb78048 100644
--- a/x-pack/docs/en/security/authorization/privileges.asciidoc
+++ b/x-pack/docs/en/security/authorization/privileges.asciidoc
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ This privilege is necessary only on clusters that contain leader indices.
 All read-only {Ilm} operations, such as getting policies and checking the
 status of {Ilm}
 
-read_slm::
+`read_slm`::
 All read-only {slm-init} actions, such as getting policies and checking the
 {slm-init} status.