diff --git a/phpBB/phpbb/content_visibility.php b/phpBB/phpbb/content_visibility.php
index 704ec6badb..4633ec24c2 100644
--- a/phpBB/phpbb/content_visibility.php
+++ b/phpBB/phpbb/content_visibility.php
@@ -144,7 +144,12 @@ class content_visibility
 	*/
 	public function is_visible($mode, $forum_id, $data)
 	{
-		$is_visible = $this->auth->acl_get('m_approve', $forum_id) || $data[$mode . '_visibility'] == ITEM_APPROVED;
+		$visibility = $data[$mode . '_visibility'];
+		$poster_key = ($mode === 'topic') ? 'topic_poster' : 'poster_id';
+		$is_visible = $this->auth->acl_get('m_approve', $forum_id) || $visibility == ITEM_APPROVED || (
+			($visibility == ITEM_UNAPPROVED || $visibility == ITEM_REAPPROVE) &&
+			$this->user->data['user_id'] === $data[$poster_key]
+		);
 
 		/**
 		* Allow changing the result of calling is_visible
@@ -216,7 +221,13 @@ class content_visibility
 		}
 		else
 		{
-			$where_sql .= $table_alias . $mode . '_visibility = ' . ITEM_APPROVED;
+			$field_name = ($mode === 'topic') ? 'topic_poster' : 'poster_id';
+			$visibility_query = $table_alias . $mode . '_visibility = ';
+
+			$where_sql .= '(' . $visibility_query . ITEM_APPROVED . ')';
+			$where_sql .= ' OR (';
+			$where_sql .= '(' . $visibility_query . ITEM_UNAPPROVED . ' OR ' . $visibility_query . ITEM_REAPPROVE . ')';
+			$where_sql .= ' AND ' . $table_alias . $field_name . ' = ' . ((int) $this->user->data['user_id']) . ')';
 		}
 
 		return '(' . $where_sql . ')';
diff --git a/phpBB/styles/prosilver/template/viewtopic_body.html b/phpBB/styles/prosilver/template/viewtopic_body.html
index 9bfa07e52b..5a469b8d85 100644
--- a/phpBB/styles/prosilver/template/viewtopic_body.html
+++ b/phpBB/styles/prosilver/template/viewtopic_body.html
@@ -294,6 +294,7 @@
 			<!-- EVENT viewtopic_body_postrow_post_details_after -->
 
 			<!-- IF postrow.S_POST_UNAPPROVED -->
+			<!-- IF postrow.S_CAN_APPROVE -->
 			<form method="post" class="mcp_approve" action="{postrow.U_APPROVE_ACTION}">
 				<p class="post-notice unapproved">
 					<span><i class="icon fa-question icon-red fa-fw" aria-hidden="true"></i></span>
@@ -304,6 +305,11 @@
 					{S_FORM_TOKEN}
 				</p>
 			</form>
+			<!-- ELSE -->
+				<p class="information post-notice">
+					{L_POST_UNAPPROVED}
+				</p>
+			<!-- ENDIF -->
 			<!-- ELSEIF postrow.S_POST_DELETED -->
 			<form method="post" class="mcp_approve" action="{postrow.U_APPROVE_ACTION}">
 				<p class="post-notice deleted">
diff --git a/phpBB/styles/prosilver/theme/colours.css b/phpBB/styles/prosilver/theme/colours.css
index ffaa71034f..d8ee4f73a7 100644
--- a/phpBB/styles/prosilver/theme/colours.css
+++ b/phpBB/styles/prosilver/theme/colours.css
@@ -1161,3 +1161,7 @@ li.notification-reported strong, li.notification-disapproved strong {
 	background-color: #D31141;
 	color: #ffffff;
 }
+
+p.information {
+	background-color: #b8d3e0;
+}
diff --git a/phpBB/viewtopic.php b/phpBB/viewtopic.php
index 4e502538c8..df241a5e8b 100644
--- a/phpBB/viewtopic.php
+++ b/phpBB/viewtopic.php
@@ -2092,6 +2092,7 @@ for ($i = 0, $end = count($post_list); $i < $end; ++$i)
 		'S_HAS_ATTACHMENTS'	=> (!empty($attachments[$row['post_id']])) ? true : false,
 		'S_MULTIPLE_ATTACHMENTS'	=> !empty($attachments[$row['post_id']]) && count($attachments[$row['post_id']]) > 1,
 		'S_POST_UNAPPROVED'	=> ($row['post_visibility'] == ITEM_UNAPPROVED || $row['post_visibility'] == ITEM_REAPPROVE) ? true : false,
+		'S_CAN_APPROVE'		=> $auth->acl_get('m_approve', $forum_id),
 		'S_POST_DELETED'	=> ($row['post_visibility'] == ITEM_DELETED) ? true : false,
 		'L_POST_DELETED_MESSAGE'	=> $l_deleted_message,
 		'S_POST_REPORTED'	=> ($row['post_reported'] && $auth->acl_get('m_report', $forum_id)) ? true : false,