Confirm Password WordPress

  • Resolved niel

    (@nielfernandez)


    4 years, 7 months ago

    Hello, Good day WordPress Developer.

    I need help currently I am working with my database in WordPress table users.
    My project is a collection of lists of information in our team, each member will receive a temporary account they should able to update their password from their custom dashboard what I did is to update their password I give them custom form that I made with HTML/PHP.

    In this part of my codes, I got a problem. Can you help me to solve this?

    * Before they update the password they should confirm the old one but every time I am trying to confirm I received an error.

    <?php 
//...
//...

// here my if statement 
// when I confirm the old password from new one using md5 
// it return incorrect password. 
     
if ( md5($_POST["currentPassword"]) == $row['user_pass'] ) 
{
  
  mysqli_query($connection, " UPDATE wpqu_users SET 
     user_pass = MD5('" . $_POST["newPassword"] . "') 
     WHERE ID = '" . $current_user->ID . "'");        
   
     $message = "Password Changed";
      
   } else {
      
     $message = "Current Password is not correct";
   }

    Please Thanks for help :))

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    WP does not store passwords as MD5, they are something PHPass creates. It’s related to MD5, but not the same format. You need to use wp_check_password(), which means you need to invoke the WP environment. You cannot easily verify WP password hashes from an external script.

    FWIW, you can store a MD5 hash in the WP password field and WP will verify it matches a hash of the plain text, but it will then update the field to the PHPass version.

    Thread Starter niel

    (@nielfernandez)

    Hello @bcworkz Thank you very much very appreciate your help you save me from trouble.
    Stay Home Keep Safe. ! :))

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