Password Validator
Premium Certified Partner
Maintained by
Brendan Heywood, Catalyst IT, Peter Burnett
A tool for enforcing various security standards and guidelines for passwords for Moodle. This plugin aims for compliance with the Australian Information Security Manual (currently May 2019), and above that, the NIST standards from the document 800-63B. Many of the controls are optional and user configurable, with the most safe values set by default, but allow for great customization for any configuration, while enforcing safe, sensible guidelines for passwords.
This password checks also include securely testing for potentially compromised passwords using:
https://haveibeenpwned.com/
Stats
Installations
Number of sites this plugin is installed on: 201
| Number of sites | |
|---|---|
| 2019-10 | 1 |
| 2019-11 | 1 |
| 2019-12 | 3 |
| 2020-01 | 3 |
| 2020-02 | 3 |
| 2020-03 | 8 |
| 2020-04 | 6 |
| 2020-05 | 11 |
| 2020-06 | 15 |
| 2020-07 | 11 |
| 2020-08 | 7 |
| 2020-09 | 10 |
| 2020-10 | 13 |
| 2020-11 | 13 |
| 2020-12 | 13 |
| 2021-01 | 12 |
| 2021-02 | 13 |
| 2021-03 | 17 |
| 2021-04 | 18 |
| 2021-05 | 22 |
| 2021-06 | 20 |
| 2021-07 | 23 |
| 2021-08 | 20 |
| 2021-09 | 22 |
| 2021-10 | 24 |
| 2021-11 | 25 |
| 2021-12 | 25 |
| 2022-01 | 23 |
| 2022-02 | 21 |
| 2022-03 | 22 |
| 2022-04 | 23 |
| 2022-05 | 19 |
| 2022-06 | 21 |
| 2022-07 | 18 |
| 2022-08 | 25 |
| 2022-09 | 20 |
| 2022-10 | 23 |
| 2022-11 | 18 |
| 2022-12 | 21 |
| 2023-01 | 17 |
| 2023-02 | 19 |
| 2023-03 | 20 |
| 2023-04 | 19 |
| 2023-05 | 20 |
| 2023-06 | 19 |
| 2023-07 | 21 |
| 2023-08 | 19 |
| 2023-09 | 22 |
| 2023-10 | 21 |
| 2023-11 | 15 |
| 2023-12 | 13 |
| 2024-01 | 17 |
| 2024-02 | 16 |
| 2024-03 | 14 |
| 2024-04 | 12 |
| 2024-05 | 13 |
| 2024-06 | 10 |
| 2024-07 | 13 |
| 2024-08 | 11 |
| 2024-09 | 11 |
| 2024-10 | 7 |
| 2024-11 | 22 |
| 2024-12 | 23 |
| 2025-01 | 23 |
| 2025-02 | 22 |
| 2025-03 | 25 |
| 2025-04 | 34 |
| 2025-05 | 28 |
| 2025-06 | 29 |
| 2025-07 | 33 |
| 2025-08 | 86 |
| 2025-09 | 99 |
| 2025-10 | 124 |
| 2025-11 | 157 |
| 2025-12 | 167 |
| 2026-01 | 169 |
| 2026-02 | 175 |
| 2026-03 | 187 |
| 2026-04 | 189 |
| 2026-05 | 198 |
| 2026-06 | 201 |
Number of sites this plugin is installed on (by Moodle version):
| Number of sites | |
|---|---|
| 5.2 | 10 |
| 5.1 | 19 |
| 5.0 | 46 |
| 4.5 | 120 |
| 4.4 | 2 |
| 4.3 | 1 |
| 4.2 | 1 |
| 3.11 | 2 |
Downloads
Total downloads in last 90 days: 22
Monthly downloads:
| Downloads | |
|---|---|
| 2025-07 | 20 |
| 2025-08 | 11 |
| 2025-09 | 7 |
| 2025-10 | 8 |
| 2025-11 | 5 |
| 2025-12 | 27 |
| 2026-01 | 23 |
| 2026-02 | 8 |
| 2026-03 | 7 |
| 2026-04 | 4 |
| 2026-05 | 0 |
| 2026-06 | 13 |
Version downloads (by month):
| 2019071000 | 2019071700 | 2019072200 | 2019080100 | 2024111401 | 2024111402 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 2025 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 10 |
| Aug 2025 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Sep 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Oct 2025 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Nov 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Dec 2025 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 16 |
| Jan 2026 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| Feb 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Mar 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Apr 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| May 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2026 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |