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Opencart 3.0.2
password with ampersand login error with password user mismatch. All other special chars work.
When I added htmlspecialchars_decode for the data['password'] model/install.php and admin/model/user.php then fixes the problem.

The new OC alpha release uses a different method to authenticate users with their passwords which uses safer methodology than decoding passwords.

in Opencart 3.0.3.2 still does not work with ampersand in password. Still needs htmlspecialchars_decode for it to work.
viewtopic.php?t=202107 this thread also present the same problem

Have no idea how the addressed topic above is relative with htmlspecialchars_decode function since I can't find any on that post.