• Resolved batman42ca

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    I ran a Wordfence scan and it warned me that some users have weak passwords. Since the passwords are encrypted, how can Wordfence determine what is and isn’t a weak password without knowing the unencrypted password? Does it simply try obvious passwords like “1234”, “qwerty” and “password” to see if encrypting those match encrypted passwords in the database?

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wordfence/

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  • Pretty much. We are brute forcing your passwords and letting you know when we are able to detect a weak password.

    -Brian

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