Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-25956022-20200517205109/@comment-25014407-20200517205734

Content moderators should be able to edit protected pages, at least as far as I know on older wikis. If your wiki is new, you could check Special:ListGroupRights on that wiki to see if content moderators have the  right. (You could also check that on older wikis as well though.)