diff --git a/webpage-metadata-extractor/pom.xml b/webpage-metadata-extractor/pom.xml
index 6155af7..1c796b8 100644
--- a/webpage-metadata-extractor/pom.xml
+++ b/webpage-metadata-extractor/pom.xml
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
 			<artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-			<version>2.5</version>
+			<version>2.12.2</version>
 
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>