Merge pull request #6251 from Laerte/master

Use defusedxml.xmlrpc

scrapy/http/request/rpc.py

@@ -7,9 +7,13 @@ See documentation in docs/topics/request-response.rst
 import xmlrpc.client as xmlrpclib
 from typing import Any, Optional
 
+import defusedxml.xmlrpc
+
 from scrapy.http.request import Request
 from scrapy.utils.python import get_func_args
 
+defusedxml.xmlrpc.monkey_patch()
+
 DUMPS_ARGS = get_func_args(xmlrpclib.dumps)
 
 

setup.py

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ install_requires = [
     "packaging",
     "tldextract",
     "lxml>=4.4.1",
+    "defusedxml>=0.7.1",
 ]
 extras_require = {
     ':platform_python_implementation == "CPython"': ["PyDispatcher>=2.0.5"],