Artifacts in the code

This may technically be Miva related but I figure that it's so obscure enough that it stumped the Support team. I stumbled across something today that I haven't run into in years and I was trying to doublecheck to make sure it was okay to remove all these tags I had found inserted into a Miva site I was reviewing. I don't know how they get there but I am pretty sure they don't get hard coded in. Every form tag in the site has an additional hidden tag:

Code:

<input type="hidden" name="phpMyAdmin" value="long string of numbers and letters" />

The "long string of numbers and letters" is exactly the same throughout the entire site. Removing the hidden tag doesn't seem to break anything. Why would it? If they were needed they would be in every Miva site.

I never did find out what caused it. One guess was it occurred when a Miva site was moved to a new host.

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