diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 47568be..3901688 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
-            <version>2.17.0</version>
+            <version>2.18.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <!-- jsoup HTML parser library @ https://jsoup.org/ -->