Title: lostpassword_errors
Published: August 11, 2020
Last modified: August 20, 2026

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# apply_filters( ‘lostpassword_errors’, WP_Error $errors, WP_User|false $user_data )

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/lostpassword_errors/?output_format=md#description)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/lostpassword_errors/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/lostpassword_errors/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/lostpassword_errors/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/lostpassword_errors/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Filters the errors encountered on a password reset request.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/lostpassword_errors/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

The filtered [WP_Error](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_error/)
object may, for example, contain errors for an invalid username or email address.
A [WP_Error](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_error/) object
should always be returned, but may or may not contain errors.

If any errors are present in $errors, this will abort the password reset request.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/lostpassword_errors/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$errors`[WP_Error](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_error/)

A [WP_Error](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_error/) object
containing any errors generated by using invalid credentials.

`$user_data`[WP_User](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_user/)
|false

[WP_User](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_user/) object if 
found, false if the user does not exist.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/lostpassword_errors/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    $errors = apply_filters( 'lostpassword_errors', $errors, $user_data );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/user.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.1/src/wp-includes/user.php#L3330)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.1/src/wp-includes/user.php#L3330-L3330)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/lostpassword_errors/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [retrieve_password()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/retrieve_password/)`wp-includes/user.php` |

Handles sending a password retrieval email to a user.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/lostpassword_errors/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [5.5.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/5.5.0/) | Introduced. |

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