diff --git a/bom/pom.xml b/bom/pom.xml
index 457db13a49d0..2b6f593e7721 100644
--- a/bom/pom.xml
+++ b/bom/pom.xml
@@ -175,12 +175,6 @@ THE SOFTWARE.
         <artifactId>jcip-annotations</artifactId>
         <version>1.0</version>
       </dependency>
-      <!-- TODO remove after determining this will not break plugins -->
-      <dependency>
-        <groupId>net.sf.kxml</groupId>
-        <artifactId>kxml2</artifactId>
-        <version>2.3.0</version>
-      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.antlr</groupId>
         <artifactId>antlr4-runtime</artifactId>
diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index 26f9a102c81e..f51d46ef586f 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -265,11 +265,6 @@ THE SOFTWARE.
       <groupId>net.jcip</groupId>
       <artifactId>jcip-annotations</artifactId>
     </dependency>
-    <!-- TODO remove after determining this will not break plugins -->
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>net.sf.kxml</groupId>
-      <artifactId>kxml2</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.antlr</groupId>
       <artifactId>antlr4-runtime</artifactId>
diff --git a/test/src/test/java/jenkins/ClassPathTest.java b/test/src/test/java/jenkins/ClassPathTest.java
index b9b380708a82..01b29253e0cc 100644
--- a/test/src/test/java/jenkins/ClassPathTest.java
+++ b/test/src/test/java/jenkins/ClassPathTest.java
@@ -75,12 +75,7 @@ public class ClassPathTest {
             "org/fusesource/jansi/internal/Kernel32$SMALL_RECT.class",
             "org/fusesource/jansi/internal/Kernel32.class",
             "org/fusesource/jansi/internal/WindowsSupport.class",
-            "org/fusesource/jansi/WindowsAnsiOutputStream.class",
-            // TODO duplicated in [kxml2-2.3.0.jar, xpp3-1.1.4c.jar]
-            "org/xmlpull/v1/XmlPullParser.class",
-            "org/xmlpull/v1/XmlPullParserException.class",
-            "org/xmlpull/v1/XmlPullParserFactory.class",
-            "org/xmlpull/v1/XmlSerializer.class")));
+            "org/fusesource/jansi/WindowsAnsiOutputStream.class")));
 
     @Issue("JENKINS-46754")
     @Test