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With the amount of features that can be added to websites and the ability to really have a fantastic looking site it can sometimes be the case that so much focus goes into how good looking a feature and the overall look of the site will be, that maybe the website owner or developer may lose focus of one of the most important areas of the site, and that is security.

Hackers are always up for a challenge and many take pleasure from just being able to cause a bit of stress for site owners but sometimes its made almost too easy for them to be able to exploit a security vulnerability on your site.

One of the ways that hackers can do this is through website forms that have security holes, if your website forms have not been put together correctly and the script isn't validating and checking the input that is sent through the form then this can make it quite easy for a hacker to be able to perform some actions that you wouldn't expect them to be able to do.

They could then use your account for spamming and this could lead to you having problems with your own email addresses setup at that account in the future, it could lead to blacklisting and cause allsorts of problems.

Whether it will be yourself who is responsible for putting the web form together for your site or a developer that you hire for the job, you need to make sure that the form is as secure as it can be and should be thoroughly tested to ensure that nobody can take advantage of a weakness in the form that could lead to problems for you, your website, the domain and possibly even your hosting account.