Forge doesn't detect new database and users

I'm new to Forge, and have had a lot of fun setting up a Laravel application using Forge + DigitalOcean.

I wanted to experiment with using Forge to install a WordPress site.

When going through the steps, when it asks which database and user to use, I realized that it wasn't going to prompt/make one for me, and since I didn't want it to use the database/user for the Laravel app I have on the same droplet, I used the console to create a separate database and user within MySQL.

So far so good - but now, when I go through the steps to install Wordpress, it won't detect the newly created database and user.

I tried soft restarting the server via Forge. I also did a hard power cycle (safely, through the DigitalOcean console), but still, it seems as if it's using a cached list of the databases and users that refuses to update.

I also tried deleting and re-creating the site from Forge multiple times, and that didn't work either.

Any tips or ideas?