# The Official FVWM Homepage - Security

## Security

Limited effort has been placed on security issues. In short, modules can not communicate with Fvwm unless they are launched by Fvwm, which means that they must be listed in the user's .fvwmrc file. Modules can only issue commands to Fvwm that could be issued from a menu or key binding. These measures do not keep a poorly written module from destroying windows or terminating an X session, but they do keep users from maliciously connecting to another users window manager, and it should keep modules from corrupting the Fvwm internal databases.