Weird bug with Chrome autofill

  • Resolved alexcsidb

    (@alexcsidb)


    5 years, 9 months ago

    I found something weird with events and chrome autofill.

    If the wp-admin login is saved to Chrome’s password list – when you go into an event it will autofill ‘external link’ with your wp-admin username and it will autofill rsvp password with your wp-admin password. Happened with a client yesterday.

    Tried removing password and re-saving, clearing cache, clearing cookies. The only solution is to not save your wp-admin password in Chrome.

    Can anyone else re-produce this?

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  • Plugin Author Franky

    (@liedekef)

    Well, I just saw this too now. Let me check this …
    Well, I have no idea why … the name and id of the field are called “event_url”, unrelated to a username whatsoever … and chrome even doesn’t ask for it but immediately fills out that value. I’ll debug some more this evening (the dev version disables autocomplete on the form as a whole, but I’m not sure that will even affect this behavior).

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by Franky.
    Plugin Author Franky

    (@liedekef)

    Ok, based on this (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23156578/google-chrome-autofilling-all-password-inputs ):

    First, Chrome ignores autocomplete=”off” in its parsing, and second, Chrome assumes the field that comes before a password field must be a username/email field, and should be autocompleted as such.

    So, I’ll try the autocomplete=”new-password” thing, and also the autocomplete=”off” on form-level.

    Thread Starter alexcsidb

    (@alexcsidb)

    Thanks for looking into this Franky. Let me know if it starts working again:)

    Plugin Author Franky

    (@liedekef)

    Well, it never stopped working, but chrome is messing with us and acting all weird with their interpretation of autocomplete and autofill … the net is full of complaints on that behavior.
    Anyway: the dev version seems to behave as desired again (and to stress: it is in fact not related to eme, but in the way chrome tries to “help” people by autofilling fields).

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