bug: Issue with user password sanitation

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Bug Report

Plugin Version

3.5.6

PHP Version

7.3.28-1

WordPress Version

6.5.5

Bug description

User passwords that are sanitized before being compared to the hashed password will result in the hashes not matching

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Additional Context (optional)

When some passwords are sanitized in AuthenticationService->authenticateUser() function before they are compared to the hash in the database, it will cause the authentication to fail. For example, if a password is 'XXX%20YYY', the sanitizeTextField function will stripe the encoded character, which will then cause the user authentication to fail.