diff --git a/spec/VerifyUserPassword.spec.js b/spec/VerifyUserPassword.spec.js
index eef2485815..3d15a25e15 100644
--- a/spec/VerifyUserPassword.spec.js
+++ b/spec/VerifyUserPassword.spec.js
@@ -585,4 +585,83 @@ describe('Verify User Password', () => {
         done();
       });
   });
+
+  it('verify password of user with unverified email with master key and ignoreEmailVerification=true', async () => {
+    await reconfigureServer({
+      publicServerURL: 'http://localhost:8378/',
+      appName: 'emailVerify',
+      verifyUserEmails: true,
+      preventLoginWithUnverifiedEmail: true,
+      emailAdapter: MockEmailAdapterWithOptions({
+        fromAddress: 'parse@example.com',
+        apiKey: 'k',
+        domain: 'd',
+      }),
+    });
+
+    const user = new Parse.User();
+    user.setUsername('user');
+    user.setPassword('pass');
+    user.setEmail('test@example.com');
+    await user.signUp();
+
+    const { data: res } = await request({
+      method: 'POST',
+      url: Parse.serverURL + '/verifyPassword',
+      headers: {
+        'X-Parse-Master-Key': Parse.masterKey,
+        'X-Parse-Application-Id': Parse.applicationId,
+        'X-Parse-REST-API-Key': 'rest',
+        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+      },
+      body: {
+        username: 'user',
+        password: 'pass',
+        ignoreEmailVerification: true,
+      },
+      json: true,
+    });
+    expect(res.objectId).toBe(user.id);
+    expect(Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(res, 'sessionToken')).toEqual(false);
+    expect(Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(res, 'password')).toEqual(false);
+  });
+
+  it('fails to verify password of user with unverified email with master key and ignoreEmailVerification=false', async () => {
+    await reconfigureServer({
+      publicServerURL: 'http://localhost:8378/',
+      appName: 'emailVerify',
+      verifyUserEmails: true,
+      preventLoginWithUnverifiedEmail: true,
+      emailAdapter: MockEmailAdapterWithOptions({
+        fromAddress: 'parse@example.com',
+        apiKey: 'k',
+        domain: 'd',
+      }),
+    });
+
+    const user = new Parse.User();
+    user.setUsername('user');
+    user.setPassword('pass');
+    user.setEmail('test@example.com');
+    await user.signUp();
+
+    const res = await request({
+      method: 'POST',
+      url: Parse.serverURL + '/verifyPassword',
+      headers: {
+        'X-Parse-Master-Key': Parse.masterKey,
+        'X-Parse-Application-Id': Parse.applicationId,
+        'X-Parse-REST-API-Key': 'rest',
+        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
+      },
+      body: {
+        username: 'user',
+        password: 'pass',
+        ignoreEmailVerification: false,
+      },
+      json: true,
+    }).catch(e => e);
+    expect(res.status).toBe(400);
+    expect(res.text).toMatch(/User email is not verified/);
+  });
 });
diff --git a/src/Routers/UsersRouter.js b/src/Routers/UsersRouter.js
index e6f0c7db3a..8af8dc5434 100644
--- a/src/Routers/UsersRouter.js
+++ b/src/Routers/UsersRouter.js
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ export class UsersRouter extends ClassesRouter {
       ) {
         payload = req.query;
       }
-      const { username, email, password } = payload;
+      const { username, email, password, ignoreEmailVerification } = payload;
 
       // TODO: use the right error codes / descriptions.
       if (!username && !email) {
@@ -144,13 +144,18 @@ export class UsersRouter extends ClassesRouter {
             installationId: req.auth.installationId,
             object: Parse.User.fromJSON(Object.assign({ className: '_User' }, user)),
           };
-          // Get verification conditions which can be booleans or functions; the purpose of this async/await
-          // structure is to avoid unnecessarily executing subsequent functions if previous ones fail in the
-          // conditional statement below, as a developer may decide to execute expensive operations in them
-          const verifyUserEmails = async () => req.config.verifyUserEmails === true || (typeof req.config.verifyUserEmails === 'function' && await Promise.resolve(req.config.verifyUserEmails(request)) === true);
-          const preventLoginWithUnverifiedEmail = async () => req.config.preventLoginWithUnverifiedEmail === true || (typeof req.config.preventLoginWithUnverifiedEmail === 'function' && await Promise.resolve(req.config.preventLoginWithUnverifiedEmail(request)) === true);
-          if (await verifyUserEmails() && await preventLoginWithUnverifiedEmail() && !user.emailVerified) {
-            throw new Parse.Error(Parse.Error.EMAIL_NOT_FOUND, 'User email is not verified.');
+
+          // If request doesn't use master or maintenance key with ignoring email verification
+          if (!((req.auth.isMaster || req.auth.isMaintenance) && ignoreEmailVerification)) {
+
+            // Get verification conditions which can be booleans or functions; the purpose of this async/await
+            // structure is to avoid unnecessarily executing subsequent functions if previous ones fail in the
+            // conditional statement below, as a developer may decide to execute expensive operations in them
+            const verifyUserEmails = async () => req.config.verifyUserEmails === true || (typeof req.config.verifyUserEmails === 'function' && await Promise.resolve(req.config.verifyUserEmails(request)) === true);
+            const preventLoginWithUnverifiedEmail = async () => req.config.preventLoginWithUnverifiedEmail === true || (typeof req.config.preventLoginWithUnverifiedEmail === 'function' && await Promise.resolve(req.config.preventLoginWithUnverifiedEmail(request)) === true);
+            if (await verifyUserEmails() && await preventLoginWithUnverifiedEmail() && !user.emailVerified) {
+              throw new Parse.Error(Parse.Error.EMAIL_NOT_FOUND, 'User email is not verified.');
+            }
           }
 
           this._sanitizeAuthData(user);
@@ -658,6 +663,9 @@ export class UsersRouter extends ClassesRouter {
     this.route('GET', '/verifyPassword', req => {
       return this.handleVerifyPassword(req);
     });
+    this.route('POST', '/verifyPassword', req => {
+      return this.handleVerifyPassword(req);
+    });
     this.route('POST', '/challenge', req => {
       return this.handleChallenge(req);
     });