diff --git a/openedx/core/lib/safe_lxml/tests.py b/openedx/core/lib/safe_lxml/tests.py
index ceb6b9828124..23e16d24d420 100644
--- a/openedx/core/lib/safe_lxml/tests.py
+++ b/openedx/core/lib/safe_lxml/tests.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 
 from lxml import etree
-from defusedxml.lxml import EntitiesForbidden
+from defusedxml.common import EntitiesForbidden
 from .xmlparser import fromstring
 
 import pytest
diff --git a/openedx/core/lib/safe_lxml/xmlparser.py b/openedx/core/lib/safe_lxml/xmlparser.py
index b271b43a0fbf..f886eac33518 100644
--- a/openedx/core/lib/safe_lxml/xmlparser.py
+++ b/openedx/core/lib/safe_lxml/xmlparser.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 from lxml import etree as _etree
 
-from defusedxml.lxml import DTDForbidden, EntitiesForbidden, NotSupportedError
+from defusedxml.common import DTDForbidden, EntitiesForbidden, NotSupportedError
 
 LXML3 = _etree.LXML_VERSION[0] >= 3