Why Does WP Easy Cart Add Spurious Characters In HTML?

[Jaxxon5]

I'm trying out WP EasyCart as an alternative to Woo, and I've run across an issue that makes absolutely zero sense.

I entered a few paragraphs of text in the "long description" section, with some very basic HTML markup, such as:

<p> <b> <br />

...and so on.

However, each time I click the "Update Product" button, WP EasyCart adds a spurious

<p>&nbsp;</p>

BETWEEN the paragraphs, which adds unwanted space between the chunks of text.

In addition, in the places where I have added a [shortcode] in the description, WP EasyCart is automatically adding a

<br />

after the [shortcode] – EACH TIME that I update the product!

So, if I update five times, my HTML reads

<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />

... if I update six times, I get six "breaks," and six added blank lines of unwanted space.

I'm not new at this, and this doesn't happen on pages, posts or products on any of the 2,300 other WordPress websites that our team works on. Any idea why it's happening with WP EasyCart?

Thanks for your help!

DJ

[Jaxxon5]

Following up:

If I edit out the spurious <p>&nbsp;</p> line in text mode, update the product, then come back into the same product ... the <p>&nbsp;</p> line is added back in again.

How do you turn this off?

DJ