diff --git a/jgraphx/src/com/mxgraph/reader/mxGraphViewImageReader.java b/jgraphx/src/com/mxgraph/reader/mxGraphViewImageReader.java

index 6c49cdc..19bc69e 100644

--- a/jgraphx/src/com/mxgraph/reader/mxGraphViewImageReader.java

+++ b/jgraphx/src/com/mxgraph/reader/mxGraphViewImageReader.java

@@ -270,8 +270,11 @@ public class mxGraphViewImageReader extends mxGraphViewReader

 			throws ParserConfigurationException, SAXException, IOException

 	{

 		BufferedImage result = null;

-		SAXParser parser = SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser();

-		XMLReader reader = parser.getXMLReader();

+		XMLReader reader = SAXParserFactory.newInstance().newSAXParser().getXMLReader();

+		reader.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/disallow-doctype-decl", true);

+		reader.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd", false);

+		reader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities", false);

+		reader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities", false);

 		reader.setContentHandler(viewReader);

 		reader.parse(inputSource);