Hudson PMD plugin unable to parse pmd report.

[PMD] Collecting PMD analysis files...
[PMD] Parsing of file
/var/lib/hudson/jobs/SM/workspace/SM/target/reports/pmd/pmd_report.xml failed
due to an exception:

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The entity "uffff" was referenced, but not declared.
at
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1234)
at
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:525)
at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1666)
at hudson.plugins.pmd.parser.PmdParser.parse(PmdParser.java:66)
at
hudson.plugins.pmd.util.AbstractAnnotationParser.parse(AbstractAnnotationParser.java:47)
at hudson.plugins.pmd.util.FilesParser.parseFile(FilesParser.java:146)
at hudson.plugins.pmd.util.FilesParser.parseFiles(FilesParser.java:125)
at hudson.plugins.pmd.util.FilesParser.invoke(FilesParser.java:81)
at hudson.plugins.pmd.util.FilesParser.invoke(FilesParser.java:22)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:681)
at hudson.FilePath.act(FilePath.java:665)
at hudson.plugins.pmd.PmdPublisher.perform(PmdPublisher.java:99)
at
hudson.plugins.pmd.util.HealthAwarePublisher.perform(HealthAwarePublisher.java:136)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$3.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:36)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.perform(AbstractBuild.java:541)
at
hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.performAllBuildStep(AbstractBuild.java:527)
at
hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.performAllBuildStep(AbstractBuild.java:515)
at hudson.model.Build$RunnerImpl.post2(Build.java:152)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractRunner.post(AbstractBuild.java:499)
at hudson.model.Run.run(Run.java:1199)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:46)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:88)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:123)

[PMD] Found 0 annotations (0 new, 0 high, 0 normal, 0 low)
[PMD] Not changing build status, since no threshold has been exceeded