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Digital Jedi · #**7041** 12-15-2010, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by eido

will this cause any security threats to my forum?? as hackers tend to use the shoutbox to deface/hack forums.

Your forum is vulnerable right now. If you mean will this make you any less or more secure, all that can be said is there haven't been any reports that I know of about this modification being exploited. Likely there would be reports here if it were happening all the time. And if it were a huge, frequently reported security vulnerability, it would have been reported to the Staff by now. No one can say if it will make your forum any more or less secure, but we can say we've not heard much, if anything, about it being so. However, this risk pretty much exists with most modifications, even vB default.

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