diff --git a/backend/app/plugins/serverkit-status/plugin.json b/backend/app/plugins/serverkit-status/plugin.json
index 9d782d44..71af50e3 100644
--- a/backend/app/plugins/serverkit-status/plugin.json
+++ b/backend/app/plugins/serverkit-status/plugin.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "name": "serverkit-status",
   "display_name": "Status Pages",
   "version": "1.0.0",
-  "description": "Public status pages backed by uptime monitors, with the management UI as a tab in the Observability group. Installing the extension serves the public /status/<slug> and /status/badge/<slug> pages too.",
+  "description": "Public status pages backed by uptime monitors, with the management UI as a tab in the Observability group. The public /status/<slug> page itself stays core.",
   "author": "ServerKit",
   "license": "MIT",
   "category": "monitoring",
diff --git a/backend/app/plugins/serverkit-status/status_pages.py b/backend/app/plugins/serverkit-status/status_pages.py
index a71540d0..cb71f0dc 100644
--- a/backend/app/plugins/serverkit-status/status_pages.py
+++ b/backend/app/plugins/serverkit-status/status_pages.py
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ def update_page(page_id):
     user = get_current_user()
     if not user or not user.is_admin:
         return jsonify({'error': 'Admin access required'}), 403
-    data = request.get_json()
+    data = request.get_json() or {}
     page = StatusPageService.update_page(page_id, data)
     if not page:
         return jsonify({'error': 'Not found'}), 404
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ def create_component(page_id):
     user = get_current_user()
     if not user or not user.is_admin:
         return jsonify({'error': 'Admin access required'}), 403
-    data = request.get_json()
+    data = request.get_json() or {}
     try:
         comp = StatusPageService.create_component(page_id, data)
         return jsonify(comp.to_dict()), 201
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ def update_component(comp_id):
     user = get_current_user()
     if not user or not user.is_admin:
         return jsonify({'error': 'Admin access required'}), 403
-    data = request.get_json()
+    data = request.get_json() or {}
     comp = StatusPageService.update_component(comp_id, data)
     if not comp:
         return jsonify({'error': 'Not found'}), 404
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ def update_incident(incident_id):
     user = get_current_user()
     if not user or not user.is_admin:
         return jsonify({'error': 'Admin access required'}), 403
-    data = request.get_json()
+    data = request.get_json() or {}
     incident = StatusPageService.update_incident(incident_id, data)
     if not incident:
         return jsonify({'error': 'Not found'}), 404
diff --git a/backend/tests/test_status_pages_json_body.py b/backend/tests/test_status_pages_json_body.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..76062199
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/tests/test_status_pages_json_body.py
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+"""A JSON body of literal `null` must not 500 the status-page routes.
+
+Flask already answers the two obvious bad bodies itself — an empty body is a
+400 and a wrong content-type is a 415 — so those were never the exposure. The
+one that reaches the view is `null`, which is valid JSON: `get_json()` returns
+None, and the service then does `if field in data` and raises TypeError.
+
+Measured on Flask 3.1.3:
+    body='null' + application/json -> get_json() is None
+    body=''     + application/json -> 400 (raised by Flask)
+    body='x'    + text/plain       -> 415 (raised by Flask)
+"""
+
+import importlib.util
+import pathlib
+import re
+
+import pytest
+
+EXT_DIR = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent / 'app' / 'plugins' / 'serverkit-status'
+
+
+def _load(module_name, filename):
+    """Load a module out of the hyphenated plugin dir (not importable normally)."""
+    spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location(module_name, EXT_DIR / filename)
+    module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
+    spec.loader.exec_module(module)
+    return module
+
+
+def test_service_still_assumes_a_dict(app):
+    """Pins WHY the route guard matters: the service has no defence of its own."""
+    service = _load('_sk_status_service', 'status_page_service.py').StatusPageService
+
+    with app.app_context():
+        # The crash only happens past the not-found early return, so the row
+        # has to exist — with no page, update_page returns None harmlessly and
+        # the test would pass for the wrong reason.
+        page = service.create_page({'name': 'Probe', 'slug': 'probe-null-body'})
+
+        # None is exactly what an unguarded request.get_json() handed it.
+        with pytest.raises(TypeError):
+            service.update_page(page.id, None)
+
+        # The value the route now passes instead is safe.
+        assert service.update_page(page.id, {}) is not None
+
+
+def test_no_route_passes_a_possibly_none_body_to_the_service():
+    """Every call site either coerces None away or rejects a falsy body inline."""
+    src = (EXT_DIR / 'status_pages.py').read_text(encoding='utf-8')
+    lines = src.splitlines()
+
+    assert 'request.get_json()' in src, 'no get_json call sites — did the file move?'
+
+    unguarded = []
+    for i, line in enumerate(lines):
+        if line.strip() == 'data = request.get_json()':
+            following = ' '.join(lines[i + 1:i + 3])
+            if 'if not data' not in following:
+                unguarded.append(i + 1)
+
+    assert not unguarded, (
+        f'status_pages.py lines {unguarded} pass a possibly-None body straight '
+        'into the service; use `request.get_json() or {}` or reject it inline.'
+    )
+
+
+def test_live_copy_and_source_agree_on_the_guard():
+    """The extension exists twice on disk; a one-sided fix is the classic drift."""
+    repo = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent.parent
+    source = repo / 'builtin-extensions' / 'serverkit-status' / 'backend' / 'status_pages.py'
+    if not source.is_file():
+        pytest.skip('builtin-extensions source copy not present in this checkout')
+
+    def norm(p):
+        return p.read_bytes().replace(b'\r\n', b'\n')
+
+    assert norm(EXT_DIR / 'status_pages.py') == norm(source), (
+        'status_pages.py differs between app/plugins/ and builtin-extensions/ — '
+        'the loader imports the live copy, so edit BOTH.'
+    )
+
+
+def test_flask_still_handles_the_bodies_we_rely_on_it_for():
+    """If Flask ever stopped raising on these, the routes would need their own
+    handling — this is the assumption the guard is scoped against.
+
+    Deliberately a throwaway Flask app rather than the shared `app` fixture:
+    adding a route there leaks into every route-level sweep in the suite (the
+    mutating-route authz sweep would see an unauthenticated PUT and fail).
+    """
+    from flask import Flask, request
+
+    probe = Flask(__name__)
+
+    @probe.route('/probe', methods=['PUT'])
+    def _probe():  # pragma: no cover - exercised via the client below
+        return {'is_none': request.get_json() is None}
+
+    client = probe.test_client()
+
+    assert client.put('/probe', data='null',
+                      content_type='application/json').get_json() == {'is_none': True}
+    assert client.put('/probe', data='',
+                      content_type='application/json').status_code == 400
+    assert client.put('/probe', data='x',
+                      content_type='text/plain').status_code == 415
diff --git a/builtin-extensions/serverkit-status/backend/status_pages.py b/builtin-extensions/serverkit-status/backend/status_pages.py
index a71540d0..cb71f0dc 100644
--- a/builtin-extensions/serverkit-status/backend/status_pages.py
+++ b/builtin-extensions/serverkit-status/backend/status_pages.py
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ def update_page(page_id):
     user = get_current_user()
     if not user or not user.is_admin:
         return jsonify({'error': 'Admin access required'}), 403
-    data = request.get_json()
+    data = request.get_json() or {}
     page = StatusPageService.update_page(page_id, data)
     if not page:
         return jsonify({'error': 'Not found'}), 404
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ def create_component(page_id):
     user = get_current_user()
     if not user or not user.is_admin:
         return jsonify({'error': 'Admin access required'}), 403
-    data = request.get_json()
+    data = request.get_json() or {}
     try:
         comp = StatusPageService.create_component(page_id, data)
         return jsonify(comp.to_dict()), 201
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ def update_component(comp_id):
     user = get_current_user()
     if not user or not user.is_admin:
         return jsonify({'error': 'Admin access required'}), 403
-    data = request.get_json()
+    data = request.get_json() or {}
     comp = StatusPageService.update_component(comp_id, data)
     if not comp:
         return jsonify({'error': 'Not found'}), 404
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ def update_incident(incident_id):
     user = get_current_user()
     if not user or not user.is_admin:
         return jsonify({'error': 'Admin access required'}), 403
-    data = request.get_json()
+    data = request.get_json() or {}
     incident = StatusPageService.update_incident(incident_id, data)
     if not incident:
         return jsonify({'error': 'Not found'}), 404
diff --git a/builtin-extensions/serverkit-status/plugin.json b/builtin-extensions/serverkit-status/plugin.json
index 425afdcf..73c427c7 100644
--- a/builtin-extensions/serverkit-status/plugin.json
+++ b/builtin-extensions/serverkit-status/plugin.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "name": "serverkit-status",
   "display_name": "Status Pages",
   "version": "1.0.0",
-  "description": "Public status pages backed by uptime monitors, with the management UI as a tab in the Observability group. Installing the extension serves the public /status/<slug> and /status/badge/<slug> pages too.",
+  "description": "Public status pages backed by uptime monitors, with the management UI as a tab in the Observability group. The public /status/<slug> page itself stays core.",
   "author": "ServerKit",
   "license": "MIT",
   "category": "monitoring",