CVE-2023-28705
Published: 02 June 2023
Summary
CVE-2023-28705 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Openfind Mail2000. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 48.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2023-32348
Vulnerability details
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…
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the email, it triggers an XSS (Reflected Cross-site scripting) attack.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.