diff --git a/airsonic-main/src/main/java/org/airsonic/player/ajax/LyricsService.java b/airsonic-main/src/main/java/org/airsonic/player/ajax/LyricsService.java
index 823e5af6..6b65e234 100644
--- a/airsonic-main/src/main/java/org/airsonic/player/ajax/LyricsService.java
+++ b/airsonic-main/src/main/java/org/airsonic/player/ajax/LyricsService.java
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.StringReader;
 import java.net.SocketException;
 
+import static org.airsonic.player.util.XMLUtil.createSAXBuilder;
+
 /**
  * Provides AJAX-enabled services for retrieving song lyrics from chartlyrics.com.
  * <p/>
@@ -80,7 +82,7 @@ public class LyricsService {
     }
 
     private LyricsInfo parseSearchResult(String xml) throws Exception {
-        SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
+        SAXBuilder builder = createSAXBuilder();
         Document document = builder.build(new StringReader(xml));
 
         Element root = document.getRootElement();
diff --git a/airsonic-main/src/main/java/org/airsonic/player/controller/JAXBWriter.java b/airsonic-main/src/main/java/org/airsonic/player/controller/JAXBWriter.java
index cf7c32fb..ca15bb80 100644
--- a/airsonic-main/src/main/java/org/airsonic/player/controller/JAXBWriter.java
+++ b/airsonic-main/src/main/java/org/airsonic/player/controller/JAXBWriter.java
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ import org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContext;
 import org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.MarshallerProperties;
 import org.jdom.Attribute;
 import org.jdom.Document;
-import org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import org.subsonic.restapi.Error;
@@ -46,6 +45,7 @@ import java.io.StringWriter;
 import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
 
+import static org.airsonic.player.util.XMLUtil.createSAXBuilder;
 import static org.springframework.web.bind.ServletRequestUtils.getStringParameter;
 
 /**
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ public class JAXBWriter {
         InputStream in = null;
         try {
             in = StringUtil.class.getResourceAsStream("/subsonic-rest-api.xsd");
-            Document document = new SAXBuilder().build(in);
+            Document document = createSAXBuilder().build(in);
             Attribute version = document.getRootElement().getAttribute("version");
             return version.getValue();
         } finally {
diff --git a/airsonic-main/src/main/java/org/airsonic/player/service/PodcastService.java b/airsonic-main/src/main/java/org/airsonic/player/service/PodcastService.java
index d5fad1d6..1142c093 100644
--- a/airsonic-main/src/main/java/org/airsonic/player/service/PodcastService.java
+++ b/airsonic-main/src/main/java/org/airsonic/player/service/PodcastService.java
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
 import org.jdom.Document;
 import org.jdom.Element;
 import org.jdom.Namespace;
-import org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
@@ -62,6 +61,8 @@ import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
 import java.util.*;
 import java.util.concurrent.*;
 
+import static org.airsonic.player.util.XMLUtil.createSAXBuilder;
+
 /**
  * Provides services for Podcast reception.
  *
@@ -317,7 +318,7 @@ public class PodcastService {
             try (CloseableHttpResponse response = client.execute(method)) {
                 in = response.getEntity().getContent();
 
-                Document document = new SAXBuilder().build(in);
+                Document document = createSAXBuilder().build(in);
                 Element channelElement = document.getRootElement().getChild("channel");
 
                 channel.setTitle(StringUtil.removeMarkup(channelElement.getChildTextTrim("title")));
diff --git a/airsonic-main/src/main/java/org/airsonic/player/util/XMLUtil.java b/airsonic-main/src/main/java/org/airsonic/player/util/XMLUtil.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cf04ad8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/airsonic-main/src/main/java/org/airsonic/player/util/XMLUtil.java
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+package org.airsonic.player.util;
+
+import org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder;
+
+public class XMLUtil {
+
+    public static SAXBuilder createSAXBuilder() {
+        SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
+        builder.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/disallow-doctype-decl",true);
+        builder.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities", false);
+        builder.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities", false);
+        return builder;
+    }
+}