diff --git a/public/main/admin/user_import.php b/public/main/admin/user_import.php
index 03085553a3d..f1aa2a353a1 100644
--- a/public/main/admin/user_import.php
+++ b/public/main/admin/user_import.php
@@ -451,9 +451,7 @@ function parse_csv_data($users, $fileName, $sendEmail = 0, $checkUniqueEmail = t
  */
 function parse_xml_data($file)
 {
-    $crawler = new \Symfony\Component\DomCrawler\Crawler();
-    $crawler->addXmlContent(file_get_contents($file));
-    $crawler = $crawler->filter('Contacts > Contact ');
+    $crawler = Import::xml($file)->filter('Contacts > Contact ');
     $array = [];
     foreach ($crawler as $domElement) {
         $row = [];
diff --git a/public/main/admin/user_update_import.php b/public/main/admin/user_update_import.php
index 22138dba1bf..3a210473831 100644
--- a/public/main/admin/user_update_import.php
+++ b/public/main/admin/user_update_import.php
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 
 use Chamilo\CoreBundle\Entity\UserAuthSource;
 use Chamilo\CoreBundle\Framework\Container;
-use Symfony\Component\DomCrawler\Crawler;
 
 $cidReset = true;
 require_once __DIR__.'/../inc/global.inc.php';
@@ -247,9 +246,7 @@ function parse_csv_data($file)
 
 function parse_xml_data($file)
 {
-    $crawler = new Crawler();
-    $crawler->addXmlContent(file_get_contents($file));
-    $crawler = $crawler->filter('Contacts > Contact ');
+    $crawler = Import::xml($file)->filter('Contacts > Contact ');
     $array = [];
     foreach ($crawler as $domElement) {
         $row = [];
diff --git a/public/main/exercise/export/exercise_import.inc.php b/public/main/exercise/export/exercise_import.inc.php
index fedb196b321..839cfd5682c 100644
--- a/public/main/exercise/export/exercise_import.inc.php
+++ b/public/main/exercise/export/exercise_import.inc.php
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 
 use Chamilo\CoreBundle\Helpers\ChamiloHelper;
 use PhpZip\ZipFile;
-use Symfony\Component\DomCrawler\Crawler;
 
 /**
  * @copyright (c) 2001-2006 Universite catholique de Louvain (UCL)
@@ -422,7 +421,7 @@ function parseQti2($xmlData)
     global $questionTempDir;
     global $resourcesLinks;
 
-    $crawler = new Crawler($xmlData);
+    $crawler = Import::xmlFromString($xmlData);
     $nodes = $crawler->filter('*');
 
     $currentQuestionIdent = '';
diff --git a/public/main/inc/lib/import.lib.php b/public/main/inc/lib/import.lib.php
index 426ec1b045f..cef72b419a3 100644
--- a/public/main/inc/lib/import.lib.php
+++ b/public/main/inc/lib/import.lib.php
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 use League\Csv\Reader;
 use PhpOffice\PhpSpreadsheet\Reader\Xls;
+use Symfony\Component\DomCrawler\Crawler;
 
 /**
  * Class Import
@@ -172,4 +173,33 @@ public static function csvColumnToArray($filename, $columnIndex = 0): array
 
         return $values;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Builds a DomCrawler from an XML file, hardened against XXE.
+     *
+     * @param string $file Path to the XML file
+     */
+    public static function xml(string $file): Crawler
+    {
+        return self::xmlFromString(file_get_contents($file));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Builds a DomCrawler from an XML string with XXE hardening: external
+     * entity loading is blocked regardless of the libxml runtime default,
+     * and the default loader is restored afterwards.
+     */
+    public static function xmlFromString(string $contents): Crawler
+    {
+        libxml_set_external_entity_loader(static fn () => null);
+
+        try {
+            $crawler = new Crawler();
+            $crawler->addXmlContent($contents);
+
+            return $crawler;
+        } finally {
+            libxml_set_external_entity_loader(null);
+        }
+    }
 }
diff --git a/public/main/inc/lib/myspace.lib.php b/public/main/inc/lib/myspace.lib.php
index 53a5e3d64a8..9cad548c1c4 100644
--- a/public/main/inc/lib/myspace.lib.php
+++ b/public/main/inc/lib/myspace.lib.php
@@ -3106,9 +3106,7 @@ public static function parse_csv_data($file)
      */
     public static function parse_xml_data($file)
     {
-        $crawler = new \Symfony\Component\DomCrawler\Crawler();
-        $crawler->addXmlContent(file_get_contents($file));
-        $crawler = $crawler->filter('Contacts > Contact ');
+        $crawler = Import::xml($file)->filter('Contacts > Contact ');
         $array = [];
         foreach ($crawler as $domElement) {
             $row = [];
diff --git a/public/main/lp/scorm.class.php b/public/main/lp/scorm.class.php
index 20456089d57..acfafbfbafd 100644
--- a/public/main/lp/scorm.class.php
+++ b/public/main/lp/scorm.class.php
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 use Chamilo\CourseBundle\Entity\CLp;
 use Chamilo\CourseBundle\Entity\CLpItem;
 use PhpZip\ZipFile;
-use Symfony\Component\DomCrawler\Crawler;
 use Symfony\Component\Lock\LockFactory;
 use Symfony\Component\Lock\Store\FlockStore;
 
@@ -98,8 +97,7 @@ public function parse_manifest()
 
             // UTF-8 is supported by DOMDocument class, this is for sure.
             $xml = api_utf8_encode_xml($xml, $this->manifest_encoding);
-            $crawler = new Crawler();
-            $crawler->addXmlContent($xml);
+            $crawler = Import::xmlFromString($xml);
             $xmlErrors = libxml_get_errors();
 
             if (!empty($xmlErrors)) {
diff --git a/src/CourseBundle/Component/CourseCopy/CommonCartridge/Import/Imscc13Import.php b/src/CourseBundle/Component/CourseCopy/CommonCartridge/Import/Imscc13Import.php
index a2f2bb4afe9..4111d1d5c41 100644
--- a/src/CourseBundle/Component/CourseCopy/CommonCartridge/Import/Imscc13Import.php
+++ b/src/CourseBundle/Component/CourseCopy/CommonCartridge/Import/Imscc13Import.php
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ private static function makeManifestValidationCopy(string $manifestPath): string
         $dom->formatOutput = false;
 
         // Load as XML (NOT HTML); suppress warnings but we control edits
-        if (!@$dom->loadXML($xml)) {
+        if (!@$dom->loadXML($xml, LIBXML_NONET)) {
             // If DOM fails, just write normalized string to a temp file
             return self::writeTempValidatedCopy($xml);
         }
diff --git a/src/CourseBundle/Component/CourseCopy/Moodle/Builder/MoodleImport.php b/src/CourseBundle/Component/CourseCopy/Moodle/Builder/MoodleImport.php
index 59a57c7537d..b1f6b3105f4 100644
--- a/src/CourseBundle/Component/CourseCopy/Moodle/Builder/MoodleImport.php
+++ b/src/CourseBundle/Component/CourseCopy/Moodle/Builder/MoodleImport.php
@@ -935,7 +935,7 @@ private function loadXml(string $path): DOMDocument
         }
         $doc = new DOMDocument();
         $doc->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
-        if (!@$doc->loadXML($xml)) {
+        if (!@$doc->loadXML($xml, LIBXML_NONET)) {
             throw new RuntimeException('Invalid XML: '.$path);
         }