diff --git a/rewrite-xml/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/xml/internal/XmlParserVisitor.java b/rewrite-xml/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/xml/internal/XmlParserVisitor.java
index 9a27991571..28548e7cb6 100755
--- a/rewrite-xml/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/xml/internal/XmlParserVisitor.java
+++ b/rewrite-xml/src/main/java/org/openrewrite/xml/internal/XmlParserVisitor.java
@@ -336,25 +336,35 @@ public Xml.Tag visitElement(XMLParser.ElementContext ctx) {
                         beforeTagDelimiterPrefix = prefix(ctx.SLASH_CLOSE());
                         advanceCursor(ctx.SLASH_CLOSE().getSymbol().getStopIndex() + 1);
                     } else {
-                        beforeTagDelimiterPrefix = prefix(ctx.CLOSE(0));
-                        advanceCursor(ctx.CLOSE(0).getSymbol().getStopIndex() + 1);
+                        beforeTagDelimiterPrefix = ctx.CLOSE(0) == null ? "" : prefix(ctx.CLOSE(0));
+                        if (ctx.CLOSE(0) != null) {
+                            advanceCursor(ctx.CLOSE(0).getSymbol().getStopIndex() + 1);
+                        }
 
                         content = ctx.content().stream()
                                 .map(this::visit)
                                 .map(Content.class::cast)
                                 .collect(toList());
 
-                        String closeTagPrefix = prefix(ctx.OPEN(1));
-                        advanceCursor(codePointCursor + 2);
-
-                        closeTag = new Xml.Tag.Closing(
-                                randomId(),
-                                closeTagPrefix,
-                                Markers.EMPTY,
-                                convert(ctx.Name(1), (n, p) -> n.getText()),
-                                prefix(ctx.CLOSE(1))
-                        );
-                        advanceCursor(codePointCursor + 1);
+                        // ANTLR may synthesize missing closing-tag tokens during error recovery
+                        // on malformed input; tolerate any combination of null OPEN/Name/CLOSE.
+                        if (ctx.OPEN(1) != null || ctx.Name(1) != null || ctx.CLOSE(1) != null) {
+                            String closeTagPrefix = ctx.OPEN(1) == null ? "" : prefix(ctx.OPEN(1));
+                            advanceCursor(codePointCursor + 2);
+
+                            String closeName = ctx.Name(1) == null ? "" :
+                                    convert(ctx.Name(1), (n, p) -> n.getText());
+                            String afterCloseName = ctx.CLOSE(1) == null ? "" : prefix(ctx.CLOSE(1));
+
+                            closeTag = new Xml.Tag.Closing(
+                                    randomId(),
+                                    closeTagPrefix,
+                                    Markers.EMPTY,
+                                    closeName,
+                                    afterCloseName
+                            );
+                            advanceCursor(codePointCursor + 1);
+                        }
                     }
 
                     return new Xml.Tag(randomId(), prefix, Markers.EMPTY, name, attributes,
@@ -468,15 +478,23 @@ private String prefix(Token token) {
 
 
     /**
-     *  Advance both the cursor and the code point cursor
+     *  Advance both the cursor and the code point cursor.
+     *  Clamps to the end of source if a synthesized token (from ANTLR error recovery
+     *  on malformed input) would advance past the end of the source string.
      */
     @SuppressWarnings("UnusedReturnValue")
     private int advanceCursor(int newCodePointIndex) {
         if (newCodePointIndex <= codePointCursor) {
             return cursor;
         }
-        cursor = source.offsetByCodePoints(cursor, newCodePointIndex - codePointCursor);
-        codePointCursor = newCodePointIndex;
+        try {
+            cursor = source.offsetByCodePoints(cursor, newCodePointIndex - codePointCursor);
+            codePointCursor = newCodePointIndex;
+        } catch (IndexOutOfBoundsException e) {
+            int reachableCodePoints = source.codePointCount(cursor, source.length());
+            cursor = source.length();
+            codePointCursor += reachableCodePoints;
+        }
         return cursor;
     }
 
diff --git a/rewrite-xml/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/xml/XmlParserTest.java b/rewrite-xml/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/xml/XmlParserTest.java
index a330218459..cbdc79bfcf 100755
--- a/rewrite-xml/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/xml/XmlParserTest.java
+++ b/rewrite-xml/src/test/java/org/openrewrite/xml/XmlParserTest.java
@@ -765,4 +765,42 @@ void utf8SurrogatePairsSimple() {
           )
         );
     }
+
+    @Issue("https://github.com/openrewrite/rewrite/issues/7554")
+    @Test
+    void malformedMissingRootCloseDoesNotThrow() {
+        // Inner element is never closed before EOF. Previously threw IndexOutOfBoundsException
+        // from advanceCursor when ANTLR error recovery synthesized closing-tag tokens past EOF.
+        SourceFile parsed = XmlParser.builder().build()
+          .parse(new InMemoryExecutionContext(t -> {
+          }), "<root>\n<inner>\n    wrong format\n</root>")
+          .findFirst().orElseThrow();
+        assertThat(parsed).isInstanceOf(ParseError.class);
+        assertThat(parsed.printAll()).isEqualTo("<root>\n<inner>\n    wrong format\n</root>");
+    }
+
+    @Issue("https://github.com/openrewrite/rewrite/issues/7554")
+    @Test
+    void malformedUnterminatedEndTagDoesNotThrow() {
+        // End-tag missing its '>' before EOF.
+        SourceFile parsed = XmlParser.builder().build()
+          .parse(new InMemoryExecutionContext(t -> {
+          }), "<a></a")
+          .findFirst().orElseThrow();
+        assertThat(parsed).isInstanceOf(ParseError.class);
+        assertThat(parsed.printAll()).isEqualTo("<a></a");
+    }
+
+    @Issue("https://github.com/openrewrite/rewrite/issues/7554")
+    @Test
+    void malformedBareAmpersandDoesNotThrow() {
+        // A bare '&' (not part of an entity reference) is invalid XML; the original
+        // text is preserved by falling back to a ParseError rather than silently dropping it.
+        SourceFile parsed = XmlParser.builder().build()
+          .parse(new InMemoryExecutionContext(t -> {
+          }), "<a>McFarland & Company</a>")
+          .findFirst().orElseThrow();
+        assertThat(parsed).isInstanceOf(ParseError.class);
+        assertThat(parsed.printAll()).isEqualTo("<a>McFarland & Company</a>");
+    }
 }