diff --git a/src/xml/dom/qdomhelpers.cpp b/src/xml/dom/qdomhelpers.cpp
index aa499616d7..459a2b5311 100644
--- a/src/xml/dom/qdomhelpers.cpp
+++ b/src/xml/dom/qdomhelpers.cpp
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ bool QDomParser::parseBody()
             break;
         case QXmlStreamReader::Characters:
             if (!reader->isWhitespace()) { // Skip the content consisting of only whitespaces
-                if (!reader->text().trimmed().isEmpty()) {
+                if (reader->isCDATA() || !reader->text().trimmed().isEmpty()) {
                     if (!domBuilder.characters(reader->text().toString(), reader->isCDATA())) {
                         domBuilder.fatalError(QDomParser::tr(
                                 "Error occurred while processing the element content"));
diff --git a/tests/auto/xml/dom/qdom/tst_qdom.cpp b/tests/auto/xml/dom/qdom/tst_qdom.cpp
index b1c9b2e9c9..cc0eef3d02 100644
--- a/tests/auto/xml/dom/qdom/tst_qdom.cpp
+++ b/tests/auto/xml/dom/qdom/tst_qdom.cpp
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ private slots:
     void invalidCharData();
 
     void roundTripAttributes() const;
+    void roundTripCDATA() const;
     void normalizeEndOfLine() const;
     void normalizeAttributes() const;
     void serializeWeirdEOL() const;
@@ -1441,6 +1442,17 @@ void tst_QDom::roundTripAttributes() const
     QCOMPARE(QString::fromLatin1(serialized.constData()), QString::fromLatin1(expected.constData()));
 }
 
+void tst_QDom::roundTripCDATA() const
+{
+    const QString input = u"<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>\n"
+                          "<content><![CDATA[]]></content>\n"_qs;
+    QString errorMsg;
+    QDomDocument doc;
+    QVERIFY(doc.setContent(input, false, &errorMsg));
+    QVERIFY(errorMsg.isEmpty());
+    QCOMPARE(doc.toString(), input);
+}
+
 void tst_QDom::normalizeEndOfLine() const
 {
     QByteArray input("<a>\r\nc\rc\ra\na</a>");