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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon wpexpertsio

HTML symbols in password

Open NinjaGlitch opened this issue 5 years ago • 8 comments

HTML special symbols can't be used in password.

NinjaGlitch avatar Jan 18 '20 09:01 NinjaGlitch

Hi,

Do you mean chars like @#$%

I did try a password with the hashtag (#) and it worked.

yehudah avatar Jan 19 '20 06:01 yehudah

Hello, % ignored

NinjaGlitch avatar Jan 20 '20 18:01 NinjaGlitch

Hi, Worked for me, what is your mail service?

yehudah avatar Jan 20 '20 20:01 yehudah

Hi, Worked for me, what is your mail service?

rackspace

NinjaGlitch avatar Jan 20 '20 20:01 NinjaGlitch

Mailer type? PostSMTP or PHPMailer?

yehudah avatar Jan 20 '20 20:01 yehudah

Mailer type? PostSMTP or PHPMailer?

i will recheck, it was a week ago and i forgot already deleted plugin and using system's sendmail in diag log , base64 of login/pass did not contain %, after decoding

NinjaGlitch avatar Jan 20 '20 20:01 NinjaGlitch

HGHHGA%5656ytG was the pass

NinjaGlitch avatar Jan 20 '20 20:01 NinjaGlitch

I can confirm that the percentage symbol (%) is stripped from the password field, resulting in an authentication error. PostSMTP is used as mailer type.

Dead-Man-Walker avatar Feb 19 '24 14:02 Dead-Man-Walker