995297 - Password wallet: Password containing "&" not saved/entered correctly

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Andreas]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:26.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/26.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 2013120700

Steps to reproduce:

After heartbleed I tried to issue new safe passwords (ebay in this case).  
The password contained a mix of lower/uppercase/numbers ending in the sequence "&#".
When using this password, I was unable to enter ebay with the auto-filled password ("wrong password or user name").  
Entering the password manually worked.
After changing the password to end in "§#", FF was able to enter the correct string.

It seems, that some special characters (at least the "&") get mangled incorrectly between storage and autofilling the password field.


Actual results:

A password ending in "&#" is not autofilled correctly into the password field at https://signin.ebay.de

A similar password ending in "§#" works correctly.


Expected results:

Any password string should be retrieved as entered.

At least, "problematic" characters should be flagged and lead to an error message.

Comment 1

[Andreas]

On another site (verbraucherzentrale.de) the very same password (with "&#") worked flawlessly.  
With PW-Manager.

Thus, the problem seems to be specific for the ebay site. 

... and probably not a valid bug - please feel free to close immediately.

Comment 2

[Francesca Ciceri [:madamezou]]

[bugday-20120414]

Probably a site-related problem, see comment 1. 
Resolved → Invalid

Comment 3

[[:Aleksej]]

Resolving per comment #1.