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May 5200612:00 AM CDT
Protect your code from spammers
Categories: PHP
A devious method of hijacking a form is to insert line breaks into form fields that will be used in email headers.
After the first line break, the spammer can insert a Bcc: line with a thousand email addresses (an arbitrary number, which could be more or less depending on how many addresses the spammer thinks your server can handle in one gulp).
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