  We derive the masses acquired at one loop by massless scalars in the
Neumann-Dirichlet sector of open strings, when supersymmetry is spontaneously
broken. It is done by computing two-point functions of "boundary-changing
vertex operators" inserted on the boundaries of the annulus and M\"obius strip.
This requires the evaluation of correlators of "excited boundary-changing
fields," which are analogous to excited twist fields for closed strings. We
work in the type IIB orientifold theory compactified on $T^2\times
T^4/\mathbb{Z}_2$, where $\mathcal{N}=2$ supersymmetry is broken to
$\mathcal{N}=0$ by the Scherk-Schwarz mechanism implemented along $T^2$. Even
though the full expression of the squared masses is complicated, it reduces to
a very simple form when the lowest scale of the background is the supersymmetry
breaking scale $M_{3/2}$. We apply our results to analyze in this regime the
stability at the quantum level of the moduli fields arising in the
Neumann-Dirichlet sector. This completes the study of Ref. [32], where the
quantum masses of all other types of moduli arising in the open- or
closed-string sectors are derived. Ultimately, we identify all brane
configurations that produce backgrounds without tachyons at one loop and yield
an effective potential exponentially suppressed, or strictly positive with
runaway behavior of $M_{3/2}$.
