diff --git a/CHANGELOG/current/fix_xml_nmap.md b/CHANGELOG/current/fix_xml_nmap.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bba79048
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGELOG/current/fix_xml_nmap.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+* Fix broken xml on nmap plugin
diff --git a/faraday_plugins/plugins/repo/nmap/plugin.py b/faraday_plugins/plugins/repo/nmap/plugin.py
index cfc0cd41..0c493b56 100644
--- a/faraday_plugins/plugins/repo/nmap/plugin.py
+++ b/faraday_plugins/plugins/repo/nmap/plugin.py
@@ -5,10 +5,9 @@
 
 """
 
-from faraday_plugins.plugins.plugin import PluginXMLFormat
 import re
 import os
-
+from io import BytesIO
 
 try:
     import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET
@@ -17,12 +16,15 @@
 except ImportError:
     import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
     ETREE_VERSION = ET.VERSION
+from lxml import etree
+from lxml.etree import XMLParser
+from faraday_plugins.plugins.plugin import PluginXMLFormat
 
 ETREE_VERSION = [int(i) for i in ETREE_VERSION.split(".")]
-
 current_path = os.path.abspath(os.getcwd())
 
 
+
 class NmapXmlParser:
     """
     The objective of this class is to parse an xml file generated by
@@ -55,7 +57,8 @@ def parse_xml(self, xml_output):
         """
 
         try:
-            return ET.fromstring(xml_output)
+            magical_parser = XMLParser(recover=True)
+            return etree.parse(BytesIO(xml_output), magical_parser)
         except SyntaxError as err:
             #logger.error("SyntaxError: %s." % (err))
             return None