diff --git a/roles/elastic-stack/ansible-kibana/tasks/main.yml b/roles/elastic-stack/ansible-kibana/tasks/main.yml
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index d2d06097..cf330640
--- a/roles/elastic-stack/ansible-kibana/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/elastic-stack/ansible-kibana/tasks/main.yml
@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@
     password: "{{ elasticsearch_xpack_security_password }}"
     validate_certs: no
     status_code: 200, 404
+    force_basic_auth: yes
 
 - name: Create wazuh plugin config directory
   file: