Title: Replace login error message with generic message
Last modified: June 4, 2019

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# Replace login error message with generic message

 *  Resolved [archesis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anchises/)
 * (@anchises)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-login-error-message-with-generic-message/)
 * Suggestion: It would be nice to have an option to replace the default “failed
   login” error messages, because they do tell an attacker if he actually got the
   right username or not.
 * Of course you can achieve that by manually adding code to functions.php but it
   would be mighty convenient (esp. for multisite also) if one could do it by flicking
   a switch in the wp-cerber dashboard …
 * Thanks.

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 *  Plugin Author [gioni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gioni/)
 * (@gioni)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-login-error-message-with-generic-message/#post-11606922)
 * That makes sense. I think it will be implemented soon.
 *  Thread Starter [archesis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anchises/)
 * (@anchises)
 * [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-login-error-message-with-generic-message/#post-11642414)
 * Thanks, that’s nice to hear!

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 * [Failed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/failed/)
 * [login](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/login/)
 * [message](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/message/)

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 * Last reply from: [archesis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anchises/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/replace-login-error-message-with-generic-message/#post-11642414)
 * Status: resolved