diff --git a/bundles/org.openhab.binding.enigma2/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/enigma2/internal/Enigma2Client.java b/bundles/org.openhab.binding.enigma2/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/enigma2/internal/Enigma2Client.java
index 833e87eac1b..b695105c2be 100644
--- a/bundles/org.openhab.binding.enigma2/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/enigma2/internal/Enigma2Client.java
+++ b/bundles/org.openhab.binding.enigma2/src/main/java/org/openhab/binding/enigma2/internal/Enigma2Client.java
@@ -81,16 +81,19 @@ public class Enigma2Client {
     private final Enigma2HttpClient enigma2HttpClient;
     private final DocumentBuilderFactory factory;
 
-    public Enigma2Client(String host, @Nullable String user, @Nullable String password, int requestTimeout)
-            throws ParserConfigurationException {
+    public Enigma2Client(String host, @Nullable String user, @Nullable String password, int requestTimeout) {
         enigma2HttpClient = new Enigma2HttpClient(requestTimeout);
         factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
         // see https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/XML_External_Entity_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet.html
-        factory.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities", false);
-        factory.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities", false);
-        factory.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd", false);
-        factory.setXIncludeAware(false);
-        factory.setExpandEntityReferences(false);
+        try {
+            factory.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities", false);
+            factory.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities", false);
+            factory.setFeature("http://apache.org/xml/features/nonvalidating/load-external-dtd", false);
+            factory.setXIncludeAware(false);
+            factory.setExpandEntityReferences(false);
+        } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
+            logger.warn("Failed setting parser features against XXE attacks!", e);
+        }
         if (StringUtils.isNotEmpty(user) && StringUtils.isNotEmpty(password)) {
             this.host = "http://" + user + ":" + password + "@" + host;
         } else {