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Better Passwords

Stop use of a bad passwords, including those in the Have I Been Pwned? breached password database

By bettersecurity·Pwned·Free
5(3 reviews)
·200 active installs·Updated 1 year ago
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As of April 2026, Better Passwords is a WordPress pwned plugin with 200 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 38K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns.

5/53 reviews
200active installs
38K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019

Overview

This plugin sets a default minimum password length of 10 characters, to ensure that passwords are suitably long that they are hard to guess. However, it does not insist on any complexity rules, such as digits and special characters, as length is the most important thing when making a password hard to guess.

This plugin uses Troy Hunt’s Pwned Passwords API in order to check a user’s potential password against a corpus of breached passwords.

The password itself is never sent to any third party, only a partial hash is sent. This means that the password entered will always be private.

As an added bonus, this plugin also upgrades the hashing algorithm used when storing your password in the database. This is a secure one-way hash created using the Bcrypt or Argon2 algorithm.

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Ratings & Reviews

53 reviews
5 ★
3
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0
3 ★
0
2 ★
0
1 ★
0

Compatibility

WordPress4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.6.5
PHP7.0+ required

Frequently Asked Questions

Contributors

Rik LewisRik Lewisbettersecuritybettersecurity
Plugin Info
Version
1.8
Last Updated
Sep 28, 2024
WP Requires
4.0+
Tested Up To
6.6.5
PHP Requires
7.0+
Active Installs
200
Downloads
38K+
Added
Feb 8, 2019
Business
Free

Tags

pwnedbettersecuritypasswordshaveibeenpwned

Developer

B
bettersecurity
5 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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