A 19-year-old Class 12 student has claimed to have uncovered major vulnerabilities in the Central Board of Secondary Education's (CBSE) On-Screen Marking (OSM) portal.
Nisarga Adhikary, who has already worked with startups and contributed to open-source projects, says he located the portal through publicly available CBSE circulars and then began reading the frontend code delivered to browsers.
He claims to have found a 'master password' that could allegedly bypass authentication and access examiner accounts, but CBSE has denied that the actual evaluation portal was compromised.
The controversy has sparked widespread curiosity online, with many questioning how a teenager with just completed Class 12 could claim to be a software engineer.
