diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1bbd9e4..a76df90 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>net.sourceforge.htmlcleaner</groupId>
             <artifactId>htmlcleaner</artifactId>
-            <version>2.8</version>
+            <version>2.24</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>commons-io</groupId>