I pulled a map pin from wowhead.com to find a trainer’s exact location. When I tried to copy/paste it a warning message said “You are attempting to run a custom script. Running scripts could compromise your character causing the loss of items or gold.”
I’m curious precisely which part you’re asking about. It means that what you have copy/pasted is a script.
The WoW chat area supports running some console scripts, including some that check whether you’ve done particular quests, such as those you might copy/paste from the third-party site, Wowhead, e.g.
You can see if you’ve completed the Broken Alliances quest by running the following script:
/run print(C_QuestLog.IsQuestFlaggedCompleted(793))
If you choose to copy/paste the above script and run it in your WoW chat console, you may be prompted with the same message you noted above, because you would be attempting to run a custom script.
Some scripts can interact with NPCs, and I assume there may even be ways to interact with the mailbox, etc. so just copy/pasting random scripts might end up sending all your gold to someone (if you’re close enough to interact with a mailbox), deleting your items, or maybe even doing something else that could get your account banned!
So, it appears that what you are seeing is a warning message letting you know what you are doing is running a custom script, and if you don’t know what it does, it’s possible it could do something you don’t want to do.
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I was asking what that warning meant and why it would warn me for a known website like wowhead. Wanted to be sure since that is the first time I’ve seen the warning message for a map pin.
the warning is for all scripts. it doesnt know reputable sources.
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Because it doesn’t know, or care, that the copied text came from wowhead.