An honest security analysis of Vercel for developers considering it for their projects.
Vercel is very safe for production deployments with proper configuration. It has strong security defaults, but environment variables and preview deployments need careful management.
Vercel is a secure platform with excellent defaults. Properly configure environment variables and security headers for production deployments.
Understanding Vercel security in the context of broader industry trends and research.
of Lovable applications (170 out of 1,645) had exposed user data in the CVE-2025-48757 incident
Source: CVE-2025-48757 security advisory
average cost of a data breach in 2023
Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023
developers using vibe coding platforms like Lovable, Bolt, and Replit
Source: Combined platform statistics 2024-2025
“Vibe coding your way to a production codebase is clearly risky. Most of the work we do as software engineers involves evolving existing systems, where the quality and understandability of the underlying code is crucial.”
“The problem with AI-generated code isn't that it doesn't work - it's that it works just well enough to ship, but contains subtle security flaws that are hard to spot.”
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