Most attacks on a Next.js site targeted software it never had installed

A developer analyzed 28 days of edge logs from a small Next.js business website and found roughly 8,900 malicious requests originating from 373 distinct cloud or VPN-based addresses. The most-targeted URL was /wp-admin/install.php, hit 518 times, despite the site never having run WordPress or PHP. Around 64% of probes sought exposed environment files and credentials, while the remainder targeted PHP panels, WordPress paths, and database tools — all irrelevant to the actual stack. Every malicious request returned a 404 or 403, but the author cautions that this volume creates a false sense of security, since real Next.js threats arrive as legitimate-looking requests exploiting framework-level flaws. Critical vulnerabilities such as CVE-2025-55182, a CVSS 10.0 remote code execution in React Server Components, pose far greater risk and go undetected by the automated bots dominating the access logs.