Title: admin captcha in chrome
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# admin captcha in chrome

 *  [jbarczak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbarczak/)
 * (@jbarczak)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-captcha-in-chrome/)
 * Hi Forum,
    Since updating wordpress, I’m finding it difficult to login to my 
   site using Chrome. Previously, when navigating to wp-login.php, chrome would 
   present a dialog saying something like “WordPress Administrator CAPTCHA Enter
   username: (some random text), Password: The result of math 20 + 8”
 * Since updating WordPress to 4.4.2, the Chrome prompt just says “authentication
   required”, and doesn’t display the math problem. This makes logging in tedious
   unless I either switch browsers, or memorize these additional credentials. I 
   can still log in, if I know what it wants me to type, but it no longer tells 
   me.
 * IE11, in contrast, says”the server reports it is from WordPress Administrator
   CAPTCHA …” so that I at least know what I’m expected to type.
 * I’ve reproduced this on a test blog with a clean wordpress installation, so I
   know it’s not caused by any plugins. Is there a way that I can correct this in
   a “stock” wordpress installation (for example, by changing the username to something
   I can more easily remember)? Or is a login plugin the way to go?

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-captcha-in-chrome/#post-7248030)
 * What plugin are you using for the captcha? WordPress does not do that on its 
   own.
 *  [Eric](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericrchristian/)
 * (@ericrchristian)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-captcha-in-chrome/#post-7248115)
 * Hi, I have just been dealing with a similar issue, and I believe it is because
   my hosting provider, hostmetro, somehow injects that math problem CAPTCHA for
   WordPress logins. However, recently it has not been working with the Google Chrome
   browser. The hostmetro support person told me that they are aware of the Chrome
   issue and suggested some Firefox CAPTCHA plugin for Chrome as a workaround. I
   have not tried this workaround.
 * Hopefully somebody at Google is aware of this issue and is actively working on
   a solution as my Chromebook is my primary laptop for maintaining my WordPress
   site.
 *  Thread Starter [jbarczak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbarczak/)
 * (@jbarczak)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-captcha-in-chrome/#post-7248217)
 * My host is webhostingpad. Apparently they’re the ones doing it: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-protected-page-asks-for-authentication](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/password-protected-page-asks-for-authentication)
 *  [vacantenigma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vacantenigma/)
 * (@vacantenigma)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-captcha-in-chrome/#post-7248323)
 * Any updates to this? I just realized this was happening to my 2 WP installs with
   Host Metro as well, and as Eric said, they suggest using Firefox as a work around.
   I used MS Edge browser and it worked fine, and I can copy the login info to Chrome
   but it’s annoying. The same thing happens on Android Chrome too.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [vacantenigma](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vacantenigma/)
 * Last activity: [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-captcha-in-chrome/#post-7248323)
 * Status: not resolved

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