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Securing Webflow Form Submissions with OAuth Webhooks
A step-by-step guide to implementing OAuth webhooks that validate requests from Webflow, ensuring secure and authentic form submissions.
Webflow is a powerful platform for building websites, but one common issue developers face is securing webhooks for form submissions. While Webflow offers a built-in method to create webhooks, this method lacks security, leaving your webhook endpoint vulnerable to unauthorized requests. In this article, we’ll walk through a more secure method to create a webhook using an OAuth app, allowing you to verify that requests are genuinely from Webflow.
Why the Built-in Webflow Webhook Method is Not Secure
Webhooks are a way for applications to communicate with each other by sending real-time data to a specified URL whenever a certain event occurs. Webflow allows you to create webhooks directly from its interface. However, this approach doesn’t include any mechanism to verify the origin of the webhook request, meaning anyone with the endpoint URL could potentially send data to it. This can lead to security risks like unauthorized data submissions, which could result in spam, data breaches, or other forms of exploitation.
