diff --git a/src/main/java/io/github/bonigarcia/wdm/WebDriverManager.java b/src/main/java/io/github/bonigarcia/wdm/WebDriverManager.java
index 84abd3eb..6a43e3be 100644
--- a/src/main/java/io/github/bonigarcia/wdm/WebDriverManager.java
+++ b/src/main/java/io/github/bonigarcia/wdm/WebDriverManager.java
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ import java.util.stream.Stream;
 import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
 import java.util.zip.ZipOutputStream;
 
+import javax.xml.XMLConstants;
 import javax.xml.namespace.NamespaceContext;
 import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
 import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
@@ -1572,6 +1573,11 @@ public abstract class WebDriverManager {
             throws SAXException, IOException, ParserConfigurationException {
         DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
         factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
+
+        factory.setFeature(XMLConstants.FEATURE_SECURE_PROCESSING, true);
+        factory.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/disallow-doctype-decl", true);
+        factory.setExpandEntityReferences(false);
+
         DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
         return builder.parse(new InputSource(
                 new ByteArrayInputStream(IOUtils.toByteArray(inputStream))));