# CVE-2023-28705: Openfind Mail2000 - XSS (Reflected Cross-site scripting)

> Remote attackers can execute arbitrary JavaScript in victims' browsers via malicious emails, potentially leading to session hijacking or data theft.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 2 Jun 2023
- **Updated:** 8 Jan 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-j58m-53vx-hhw8

## What is CVE-2023-28705?

CVE-2023-28705 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Openfind Mail2000, published on 2 Jun 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Openfind Mail2000 has insufficient filtering special characters of email content of its content filtering function. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability using phishing emails that contain malicious web pages injected with JavaScript. When users access the system and open the email, it triggers an XSS (Reflected Cross-site scripting) attack.

Weakness: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-28705?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Openfind Mail2000.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-28705?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-28705 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-28705 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-28705 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Openfind Mail2000

- [CVE-2024-5400](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5400/): Openfind Mail2000 - OS Command Injection (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2024-5399](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-5399/): Openfind Mail2000 - OS Command Injection (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2020-12776](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-12776/): Openfind Mail2000 - Broken Access Control (medium 6.6)
- [CVE-2024-6740](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6740/): Openfind Mail2000 - Stored XSS (medium 6.1)
- [CVE-2019-15071](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-15071/): Openfind MAIL2000 Webmail Pre-Auth Cross-Site Scripting (medium 6.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-28705 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-28705 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Openfind Mail2000, published on 2 Jun 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-28705 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Openfind Mail2000. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-28705/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-28705/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-28705
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-28705
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-28705

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-28705/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.