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I mean I guess in theory they could be sending the password to the backend and validating it against your hash? In reality I doubt anybody would do that tho as it's a huge load on the server
Well when the website is so helpful and give you instant feedback on the correctness of your password... Then it would do that to hackers as well.
A password reset occurs within a state that has some form of authorization.