diff --git a/spec/cdata_spec.js b/spec/cdata_spec.js
index 821179a5..c93b9fce 100644
--- a/spec/cdata_spec.js
+++ b/spec/cdata_spec.js
@@ -368,19 +368,30 @@ patronymic</person></root>`;
         expect(result).toEqual(expected);
     });
 
-    it("should not process entities in CDATA", function () {
-        const xmlData = `<xml><![CDATA[&lt;text&gt;]]></xml>`;
+    it("should preserve carriage return characters in CDATA and text nodes", function () {
+        const xmlData = `<properties>
+            <property><![CDATA[This is a carriage return \r...]]></property>
+            <property><![CDATA[\r]]></property>
+            <text>line1\rline2</text>
+        </properties>`;
 
-        const expected = { xml: '&lt;text&gt;' };
+        const expected = {
+            "properties": {
+                "property": [
+                    "This is a carriage return \r...",
+                    "\r"
+                ],
+                "text": "line1\rline2"
+            }
+        };
 
         const options = {
-            ignoreAttributes: false,
+            parseTagValue: false,
+            trimValues: false
         };
-
         const parser = new XMLParser(options);
         let result = parser.parse(xmlData);
-
-        // console.log(JSON.stringify(result,null,4));
+        // console.log(JSON.stringify(result, null, 4));
         expect(result).toEqual(expected);
     });
 });
diff --git a/src/xmlparser/OrderedObjParser.js b/src/xmlparser/OrderedObjParser.js
index ec8d24d4..83f2ae3b 100644
--- a/src/xmlparser/OrderedObjParser.js
+++ b/src/xmlparser/OrderedObjParser.js
@@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ function buildAttributesMap(attrStr, jPath, tagName, force = false) {
   }
 }
 const parseXml = function (xmlData) {
-  xmlData = xmlData.replace(/\r\n?/g, "\n"); //TODO: remove this line
+  // xmlData = xmlData.replace(/\r\n?/g, "\n"); // Removed: incorrectly replaces \r in CDATA and text nodes
   const xmlObj = new xmlNode('!xml');
   let currentNode = xmlObj;
   let textData = "";