diff --git a/mod/imscp/locallib.php b/mod/imscp/locallib.php
index 9a02dc14f1d..3ebd1060af0 100644
--- a/mod/imscp/locallib.php
+++ b/mod/imscp/locallib.php
@@ -104,9 +104,11 @@ function imscp_parse_structure($imscp, $context) {
  */
 function imscp_parse_manifestfile($manifestfilecontents, $imscp, $context) {
     $doc = new DOMDocument();
+    $oldentities = libxml_disable_entity_loader(true);
     if (!$doc->loadXML($manifestfilecontents, LIBXML_NONET)) {
         return null;
     }
+    libxml_disable_entity_loader($oldentities);
 
     // we put this fake URL as base in order to detect path changes caused by xml:base attributes
     $doc->documentURI = 'http://grrr/';
@@ -204,10 +206,14 @@ function imscp_recursive_href($manifestfilename, $imscp, $context) {
     if (!$manifestfile = $fs->get_file($context->id, 'mod_imscp', 'content', $imscp->revision, $dirname, $filename)) {
         return null;
     }
+
     $doc = new DOMDocument();
+    $oldentities = libxml_disable_entity_loader(true);
     if (!$doc->loadXML($manifestfile->get_content(), LIBXML_NONET)) {
         return null;
     }
+    libxml_disable_entity_loader($oldentities);
+
     $xmlresources = $doc->getElementsByTagName('resource');
     foreach ($xmlresources as $res) {
         if (!$href = $res->attributes->getNamedItem('href')) {