diff --git a/packages/cli/package.json b/packages/cli/package.json
index f62b098244..694f48cffb 100644
--- a/packages/cli/package.json
+++ b/packages/cli/package.json
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@
         "@types/jsonwebtoken": "^8.3.4",
         "basic-auth": "^2.0.1",
         "body-parser": "^1.18.3",
+        "body-parser-xml": "^1.1.0",
         "compression": "^1.7.4",
         "connect-history-api-fallback": "^1.6.0",
         "convict": "^5.0.0",
diff --git a/packages/cli/src/Server.ts b/packages/cli/src/Server.ts
index a888694702..d40374915f 100644
--- a/packages/cli/src/Server.ts
+++ b/packages/cli/src/Server.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import {
 	getConnectionManager,
 } from 'typeorm';
 import * as bodyParser from 'body-parser';
+require('body-parser-xml')(bodyParser);
 import * as history from 'connect-history-api-fallback';
 import * as requestPromise from 'request-promise-native';
 
@@ -235,6 +236,14 @@ class App {
 			req.rawBody = buf;
 		}}));
 
+		// Support application/xml type post data
+		// @ts-ignore
+		this.app.use(bodyParser.xml({ limit: "16mb", xmlParseOptions: {
+			normalize: true,     // Trim whitespace inside text nodes
+			normalizeTags: true, // Transform tags to lowercase
+			explicitArray: false // Only put properties in array if length > 1
+		  } }));
+
 		// Make sure that Vue history mode works properly
 		this.app.use(history({
 			rewrites: [