CVE-2025-2042
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedA vulnerability has been found in huang-yk student-manage 1.0 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code. The manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceCSRF vulnerability in huang-yk student-manage v1.0 allows remote attackers to trick authenticated users into performing unintended state-changing actions via crafted requests. The exploit is publicly available, lowering the barrier for attack.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE dataall versionsCVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify if student-manage application is presentLocate the application's web files or running service. Check for files or directories containing 'student-manage', 'huang-yk', or related naming patterns in the web root or installed application directories.Affected if The Huang Yk Student Manage application is found running in the environment
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Inspect forms for anti-CSRF tokensNavigate to state-changing forms (user creation, student record modification, settings changes, data export) within the application. View the page source or inspect form elements to search for hidden input fields containing token values, or check request headers for token parameters.Affected if No CSRF token fields are present in forms, or tokens are missing from requests to state-changing endpoints
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Check SameSite cookie attribute configurationLog into the application and use browser developer tools or a proxy to capture authentication requests. Inspect session cookies to verify the SameSite attribute value.Affected if Cookies lack SameSite attribute or are set to 'None' without Secure flag, indicating SameSite protection is not enabled
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Verify Origin/Referer header validationSubmit a state-changing request with an altered or missing Origin/Referer header (using a tool like Burp Suite or curl). Observe whether the request is accepted or rejected by the server.Affected if Requests with mismatched or missing Origin/Referer headers are processed successfully, indicating lack of header-based CSRF protection
A user is affected if the Huang Yk Student Manage application is present AND any of the following are true: forms lack anti-CSRF tokens, cookies have no or weak SameSite settings, or the application does not validate Origin/Referer headers on state-changing operations.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement anti-CSRF tokens on all state-changing operations (forms, API endpoints) and validate them server-side. Additionally, configure SameSite cookie attributes and validate Origin/Referer headers as defense-in-depth.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2025-2042 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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