diff --git a/boilerpipe/boilerpipe-common/pom.xml b/boilerpipe/boilerpipe-common/pom.xml
index ed07ec0..d77ec2e 100644
--- a/boilerpipe/boilerpipe-common/pom.xml
+++ b/boilerpipe/boilerpipe-common/pom.xml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>xerces</groupId>
 			<artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
-			<version>2.12.0</version>
+			<version>2.12.2</version>
 			<!-- Apache License, Version 2.0 -->
 		</dependency>