mikejolley/sidebar-login — Issue #12: Failing on some passwords
Author: gustavlarson
Created: 2012-02-13 15:15:36+00:00
State: open

Hi,
if the user have a password with certain characters(& for example) the plugin will display an error that the wrong password is entered.

This is because of the esc_attr() used on lines 310-312.
The original wp-login.php does not escape the password & username, I guess that is handled later.