diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index e55dbac76c..63e2e6f262 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+* Do not resolve entities by default with lxml (issue11219)
+* Use defusedxml to parse XML (issue11244)
 * Use dictionary as search_order on Reference field
 * Retry sending email on temporary failure
 * Order not sorted Selection by index definition
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c4f76e43bd..dec4772a51 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -157,6 +157,7 @@ setup(name=name,
     license='GPL-3',
     python_requires='>=3.7',
     install_requires=[
+        'defusedxml',
         'lxml >= 2.0',
         'relatorio[fodt] >= 0.7.0',
         'Genshi',
diff --git a/trytond/__init__.py b/trytond/__init__.py
index 249afc7ef7..407ebc4201 100644
--- a/trytond/__init__.py
+++ b/trytond/__init__.py
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import time
 import warnings
 from email import charset
 
+from lxml import etree, objectify
+
 __version__ = "6.3.0"
 
 os.environ['TZ'] = 'UTC'
@@ -16,3 +18,7 @@ if time.tzname[0] != 'UTC':
 
 # set email encoding for utf-8 to 'quoted-printable'
 charset.add_charset('utf-8', charset.QP, charset.QP)
+
+# prevent XML vulnerabilities by default
+etree.set_default_parser(etree.XMLParser(resolve_entities=False))
+objectify.set_default_parser(objectify.makeparser(resolve_entities=False))
diff --git a/trytond/ir/translation.py b/trytond/ir/translation.py
index 1d2b361281..f7b83b20a8 100644
--- a/trytond/ir/translation.py
+++ b/trytond/ir/translation.py
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 # This file is part of Tryton.  The COPYRIGHT file at the top level of
 # this repository contains the full copyright notices and license terms.
 import os
-import xml.dom.minidom
 from collections import defaultdict
 from difflib import SequenceMatcher
 from io import BytesIO
 
 import polib
+from defusedxml.minidom import parseString
 from genshi.filters.i18n import extract as genshi_extract
 from lxml import etree
 from relatorio.reporting import MIMETemplateLoader
@@ -958,7 +958,7 @@ class TranslationSet(Wizard):
                 zip_.read('content.xml'),
                 zip_.read('styles.xml'),
                 ]:
-            document = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(content_xml)
+            document = parseString(content_xml)
             for string in extract(document.documentElement):
                 yield string
 
diff --git a/trytond/ir/ui/view.py b/trytond/ir/ui/view.py
index 81a6952474..f7b22c0d4c 100644
--- a/trytond/ir/ui/view.py
+++ b/trytond/ir/ui/view.py
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ class View(ModelSQL, ModelView):
                 ])
         views.sort(
             key=lambda v: self._module_index.get(v.module, -1), reverse=True)
-        parser = etree.XMLParser(remove_comments=True)
+        parser = etree.XMLParser(remove_comments=True, resolve_entities=False)
         tree = etree.fromstring(arch, parser=parser)
         decoder = PYSONDecoder({'context': Transaction().context})
         for view in views:
diff --git a/trytond/model/modelview.py b/trytond/model/modelview.py
index f36f1e9ff3..45a89e600f 100644
--- a/trytond/model/modelview.py
+++ b/trytond/model/modelview.py
@@ -250,7 +250,8 @@ class ModelView(Model):
             level = 1 if result['type'] == 'tree' else 0
 
         # Update arch and compute fields from arch
-        parser = etree.XMLParser(remove_blank_text=True)
+        parser = etree.XMLParser(
+            remove_blank_text=True, resolve_entities=False)
         tree = etree.fromstring(result['arch'], parser)
         result['arch'], result['fields'] = cls.parse_view(
             tree, result['type'], view_id=view_id,
diff --git a/trytond/protocols/xmlrpc.py b/trytond/protocols/xmlrpc.py
index 7cb5c53058..4ed0e8dc3d 100644
--- a/trytond/protocols/xmlrpc.py
+++ b/trytond/protocols/xmlrpc.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import xmlrpc.client as client
 # convert decimal to float before marshalling:
 from decimal import Decimal
 
+import defusedxml.xmlrpc
 from werkzeug.exceptions import (
     BadRequest, Conflict, Forbidden, InternalServerError, Locked,
     TooManyRequests)
@@ -20,6 +21,8 @@ from trytond.tools import cached_property
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
+defusedxml.xmlrpc.monkey_patch()
+
 
 def dump_decimal(self, value, write):
     write('<value><bigdecimal>')