diff --git a/lollms/security.py b/lollms/security.py
index f5f3fa4..9374fdb 100644
--- a/lollms/security.py
+++ b/lollms/security.py
@@ -65,31 +65,56 @@ def sanitize_after_whitelisted_command(line, command):
         # This means we should only return the part up to the whitelisted command
         return line[:command_end_index + len(sanitized_rest)].strip()
 
+if not(PackageManager.check_package_installed("defusedxml")):
+    PackageManager.install_or_update("defusedxml")
+
+import defusedxml.ElementTree as ET
+
+from defusedxml import ElementTree as ET
+from io import StringIO
 
 def sanitize_svg(svg_content):
     try:
-        parser = ET.XMLParser(remove_comments=True, remove_pis=True)
-        tree = ET.fromstring(svg_content, parser=parser)
+        # Use defusedxml's parse function with a StringIO object
+        tree = ET.parse(StringIO(svg_content))
+        root = tree.getroot()
 
-        # Remove any script elements
-        for script in tree.xpath('//svg:script', namespaces={'svg': 'http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'}):
-            parent = script.getparent()
-            if parent is not None:
-                parent.remove(script)
+        # Define a list of allowed elements
+        allowed_elements = {
+            'svg', 'g', 'path', 'circle', 'rect', 'line', 'polyline', 'polygon',
+            'text', 'tspan', 'defs', 'filter', 'feGaussianBlur', 'feMerge',
+            'feMergeNode', 'linearGradient', 'radialGradient', 'stop'
+        }
 
-        # Remove any 'on*' event attributes
-        for element in tree.xpath('//*[@*[starts-with(name(), "on")]]'):
+        # Define a list of allowed attributes
+        allowed_attributes = {
+            'id', 'class', 'style', 'fill', 'stroke', 'stroke-width', 'cx', 'cy',
+            'r', 'x', 'y', 'width', 'height', 'd', 'transform', 'viewBox',
+            'xmlns', 'xmlns:xlink', 'version', 'stdDeviation', 'result', 'in',
+            'x1', 'y1', 'x2', 'y2', 'offset', 'stop-color', 'stop-opacity'
+        }
+
+        # Remove any disallowed elements
+        for element in root.iter():
+            if element.tag.split('}')[-1] not in allowed_elements:
+                parent = element.getparent()
+                if parent is not None:
+                    parent.remove(element)
+
+        # Remove any disallowed attributes
+        for element in root.iter():
             for attr in list(element.attrib):
-                if attr.startswith('on'):
+                if attr not in allowed_attributes:
                     del element.attrib[attr]
 
         # Convert the tree back to an SVG string
-        sanitized_svg = ET.tostring(tree, encoding='unicode', method='xml')
+        sanitized_svg = ET.tostring(root, encoding='unicode', method='xml')
         return sanitized_svg
-    except ET.XMLSyntaxError as e:
+    except ET.ParseError as e:
         raise ValueError("Invalid SVG content") from e
 
 
+
 def sanitize_shell_code(code, whitelist=None):
     """
     Securely sanitizes a block of code by allowing commands from a provided whitelist,