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Hey BuddyPress friends,

For several days I’ve been getting emails from users of my website Pack Poetry. They sign up for an account, go to activate their account, and some report an Invalid Activation Key error. They also get redirected to the login page after clicking log in, and get this message even though their login details are correct: “ERROR: The password you entered for the username TESTUSERNAME is incorrect. Lost Your Password?” If you click the lost password link and reset your password, you can log in just fine.

I’ve contacted my website host about this issue and they found this in the backend log and told me to contact the plugin developer:

WordPress database error You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MariaDB server version for the right syntax to use near ‘WHERE activation_key = ‘AW85TRgGLm7ktpvDgcVfWdKH6oq9NiZL” at line 1 for query SELECT * FROM WHERE activation_key = ‘AW85TRgGLm7ktpvDgcVfWdKH6oq9NiZL’ made by require(‘wp-blog-header.php’), require_once(‘wp-includes/template-loader.php’), do_action(‘template_redirect’), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, bp_template_redirect, do_action(‘bp_template_redirect’), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, bp_actions, do_action(‘bp_actions’), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, bp_members_action_activate_account, bp_core_activate_signup, do_action(‘bp_core_activated_user’), WP_Hook->do_action, WP_Hook->apply_filters, xprofile_sync_wp_profile, wp_update_user, wp_insert_user, apply_filters(‘wp_pre_insert_user_data’), WP_Hook->apply_filters, ub_signup_password->pre_insert_user_data, wp_generate_password, apply_filters(‘random_password’), WP_Hook->apply_filters, ub_signup_password->password_random_password_filter\n, referer: https://packpoetry.com/activate/AW85TRgGLm7ktpvDgcVfWdKH6oq9NiZL/

They’ve created several accounts to test, and one of them is that activation URL above. I’ve switched themes and tested the login and get the “ERROR: The password you entered for the username TESTUSERNAME is incorrect. Lost Your Password?” error. I’ve also deactivated plugins and get the same error. I’ve even deactivated and reactivated BuddyPress to see if that may fix the issue, but nope.