diff --git a/Tests/test_file_jpeg.py b/Tests/test_file_jpeg.py
index 3876466d3..90926e8d9 100644
--- a/Tests/test_file_jpeg.py
+++ b/Tests/test_file_jpeg.py
@@ -831,7 +831,8 @@ class TestFileJpeg:
     def test_getxmp(self):
         with Image.open("Tests/images/xmp_test.jpg") as im:
             if ElementTree is None:
-                assert xmp == {}
+                with pytest.warns(UserWarning):
+                    assert im.getxmp() == {}
             else:
                 xmp = im.getxmp()
 
diff --git a/Tests/test_file_png.py b/Tests/test_file_png.py
index cfeedd932..ffacbbbf4 100644
--- a/Tests/test_file_png.py
+++ b/Tests/test_file_png.py
@@ -659,7 +659,8 @@ class TestFilePng:
     def test_getxmp(self):
         with Image.open("Tests/images/color_snakes.png") as im:
             if ElementTree is None:
-                assert im.getxmp() == {}
+                with pytest.warns(UserWarning):
+                    assert im.getxmp() == {}
             else:
                 xmp = im.getxmp()
 
diff --git a/Tests/test_file_tiff.py b/Tests/test_file_tiff.py
index 3465d946e..57f45bd09 100644
--- a/Tests/test_file_tiff.py
+++ b/Tests/test_file_tiff.py
@@ -651,7 +651,8 @@ class TestFileTiff:
     def test_getxmp(self):
         with Image.open("Tests/images/lab.tif") as im:
             if ElementTree is None:
-                assert im.getxmp() == {}
+                with pytest.warns(UserWarning):
+                    assert im.getxmp() == {}
             else:
                 xmp = im.getxmp()
 
diff --git a/src/PIL/Image.py b/src/PIL/Image.py
index c615e9a93..44a9fd0d2 100644
--- a/src/PIL/Image.py
+++ b/src/PIL/Image.py
@@ -1364,6 +1364,7 @@ class Image:
             return value
 
         if ElementTree is None:
+            warnings.warn("XMP data cannot be read without defusedxml dependency")
             return {}
         else:
             root = ElementTree.fromstring(xmp_tags)