ebay inserting Javascript into drafts?

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- 10/20/2018 at 10:06 pm #50441
  Ryanne
  Keymaster
  Location: Virginia
  @ryanne
  all my scheduled listings are giving me this warning message–
  We found the following active content in your listing: Javascript. To make eBay a more secure marketplace, we hide all active content from buyers.
  
  when i switch to the HTML view, sure enough there is a bunch of invisible javascript in my listing. i delete it, but how did it get there??
  
  anyone else having this issue?
- 10/21/2018 at 1:07 am #50443
  IndySales
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  Location:
  @indysales
  Interesting. I’ve been tearing through listings recently and haven’t had this happen. Maybe it’s specifically scheduled listings and not drafted ones? I’m curious as to what the Javascript code is – could shed some light on its origin.
- 10/21/2018 at 1:15 am #50444
  Ryanne
  Keymaster
  Location: Virginia
  @ryanne
```
<font rwr="1" style="font-family:Arial" size="4"><font rwr="1" style="font-family:Arial" size="4"><p><font face="Arial">Lot of&nbsp;84, 2.5cm, slight difference in styles</font></p><p><font face="Arial">Lot#940</font></p></font></font><script>try{(function() {if (typeof(lpcurruser) == 'undefined') lpcurruser = ''; if (document.getElementById('lpcurruserelt') && document.getElementById('lpcurruserelt').value != '') { lpcurruser = document.getElementById('lpcurruserelt').value; document.getElementById('lpcurruserelt').value = ''; } if (typeof(lpcurrpass) == 'undefined') lpcurrpass=''; if (document.getElementById('lpcurrpasselt') && document.getElementById('lpcurrpasselt').value != '') { lpcurrpass = document.getElementById('lpcurrpasselt').value; document.getElementById('lpcurrpasselt').value = ''; } var lploc=1;var lponlyfill=1;(function() {
var doc = document;
var frm = doc.getElementById('SignInForm');
var old_username = doc.getElementById('userid');
var old_password = doc.getElementById('pass');
var runids = doc.getElementsByName('runId2');
var runid = null;
if (runids.length==1) { runid = doc.getElementsByName('runId2')[0]; }
if (frm && runid && old_username && old_password ) {
try {
old_username.value = "";
old_password.value = "";
old_username.parentNode.nextSibling.getElementsByTagName('input')[0].value = lpcurruser;
old_password.parentNode.previousSibling.getElementsByTagName('input')[0].value = lpcurrpass;
} catch (e) { };
}
})();lpcurruser = ''; lpcurrpass = '';})();}catch(e){}</script><script>try{(function() {if (typeof(lpcurruser) == 'undefined') lpcurruser = ''; if (document.getElementById('lpcurruserelt') && document.getElementById('lpcurruserelt').value != '') { lpcurruser = document.getElementById('lpcurruserelt').value; document.getElementById('lpcurruserelt').value = ''; } if (typeof(lpcurrpass) == 'undefined') lpcurrpass=''; if (document.getElementById('lpcurrpasselt') && document.getElementById('lpcurrpasselt').value != '') { lpcurrpass = document.getElementById('lpcurrpasselt').value; document.getElementById('lpcurrpasselt').value = ''; } var lploc=2;var lponlyfill=1;(function() {
var doc = document;
var frm = doc.getElementById('SignInForm');
var old_username = doc.getElementById('userid');
var old_password = doc.getElementById('pass');
var runids = doc.getElementsByName('runId2');
var runid = null;
if (runids.length==1) { runid = doc.getElementsByName('runId2')[0]; }
if (frm && runid && old_username && old_password ) {
try {
old_username.value = "";
old_password.value = "";
old_username.parentNode.nextSibling.getElementsByTagName('input')[0].value = lpcurruser;
old_password.parentNode.previousSibling.getElementsByTagName('input')[0].value = lpcurrpass;
} catch (e) { };
}
})();lpcurruser = ''; lpcurrpass = '';})();}catch(e){}</script>
```
- 10/21/2018 at 1:20 am #50445
  Ryanne
  Keymaster
  Location: Virginia
  @ryanne
  huh, so i just read on the ebay forums, that if you have just enabled LastPass on your browser, this could be causing it. i just installed LastPass, so that’s probably the issue. so weird!!
  
  https://community.ebay.com/t5/Archive-Selling/Code-appended-to-listing-description-bug-in-Ebay/td-p/25532773
- 10/21/2018 at 8:57 am #50447
  Sharyn
  Participant
  Location: Central NJ
  @sharyn
  Out of curiosity, what does LastPass do?
  - 10/21/2018 at 9:09 am #50449
    Ryanne
    Keymaster
    
    Location: Virginia
    @ryanne
    https://www.lastpass.com/how-lastpass-works
  - 10/21/2018 at 9:29 am #50450
    MDC Galleries & Fine Art
    Participant
    
    Location: Atlanta
    @huncrelan
    Sharyn: LastPass is a password “vault”. I use RoboForm. These apps will create a unique, very long and complex passsword for any site that you go to and register with that wants you to create a password. Then stores that password in the “vault”. All a user has to do it create one Master Password that opens the vault. Then when you login to a site all you do is click on the sites name inside of the vault, and the app takes you to the desired site, opens the sign in window, fills in the site’s / your ID name and enters the password for you, all blanked out then automatically opens the sie for you. Viola’
    
    RoboForms allows for notes about the site, you can create many folders for other information you wish to save. It is like a digital version of a bank safety deposit box for documents, passwords, notes, details, etc.
    
    Each morning I fire up my rig, I open my browser then next I open RoboForm with my master password. It resides as a small icon in the upper right side of any browser window. Then when I want to go to any particular site that I have isited before all I do is click on the RoboForm icon, down drops an alphbetical listing of all of my previous sites, [I personally have over 250 sites I have used and created passwords for] and then RoboForm does the rest. I have my PayPal, banking, investment sites, Facebook, intagram, social security, GA state tax comm., DMV, you name it, it is there in the vault all double password protected and it is a one stop shop to sign in anywhere.
    
    When you go to a new site for the first time, RoboForm pops up and tells you this is a new site and do you want it to create a new password for you, or you can use your own. It will then ask you if you want it to save it and that’s it. From that point on, Robo will be your gateway to that new site.
    
    Clark Howard of Radio fame highly stresses the use of password vaults to keep all your passwords in one place.
    
    Thought I would chime in with a few details..
    
    Good coffee this morning..
    
    mike at mdc galleries and fine art
    - 10/21/2018 at 11:23 am #50458
      Sharyn
      Participant
      
      Location: Central NJ
      @sharyn
      
      Mike: My mother has been using RoboForm for years. My computer saves the passwords for me. Is there an advantage of using RoboForm over the built-in computer function? For example, if my computer is stolen, the thieves would have access to all of my important passwords assuming they can get through my initial login to my account.
- 10/21/2018 at 9:42 am #50451
  MDC Galleries & Fine Art
  Participant
  Location: Atlanta
  @huncrelan
  Ryanne.. At first I thought it might be connected to using InkFrog, because some time back SixBit and WonderLister was inputing some code into listings at the very end to embed it’s logo and a touch of advetising with a back link back to there web sites. But both have since fixed that and stripped it out. Both even tried charging $5 per month to not embed it but that also fell by the wayside.
  
  So I first thought maybe InkFrog was link tagging something at the bottom.
  
  But after reading through the code seems to be no sign of that and mentions “passwords” so think you are on it with LastPass.
  
  mike at mdcgfa
  - 10/21/2018 at 9:47 am #50452
    Ryanne
    Keymaster
    
    Location: Virginia
    @ryanne
    i was thinking it might be Ink Frog too, but i found this ebay forum thread on my first search for answers, so i knew it was LastPass. Very strange! i thought also that it might be the new ebay mobile app inserting code, but i have not updated the app the iphone that my helpers use (or ours). thanks for reading! hope this helps someone else in the future too.
- 10/22/2018 at 2:58 pm #50558
  Anonymous
  Location:
  I am pretty sure it is lastpass on firefox that does this.
  Lastpass doesn’t do this with Chrome
  - 10/23/2018 at 9:18 am #50589
    pythonesk
    Participant
    
    Location: East TN
    @pythonesk
    I also use last pass on chrome and haven’t had this problem.
- 10/23/2018 at 9:34 am #50592
  Ryanne
  Keymaster
  Location: Virginia
  @ryanne
  ok good to know, i will either list on Chrome or sign out of the extension when listing on FF. thanks y’all!
- 11/01/2018 at 10:44 pm #51103
  John Fairfax
  Participant
  Location:
  @john-fairfax
  I had the same problem. When I saw the code, I thought my account was hacked. But figured, it was LastPass + FireFox. Since then I’ve been using Chrome only.
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