diff --git a/dependencies.gradle b/dependencies.gradle
index b49965fbb91..714bcda0a0f 100644
--- a/dependencies.gradle
+++ b/dependencies.gradle
@@ -81,7 +81,10 @@ dependencies {
     implementation 'org.jdom:jdom:1.1.3' // don't upgrade above 1.1.3, makes a lot of not obvious and useless complications, see last commits of OFBIZ-12092 for more
     implementation 'com.google.re2j:re2j:1.7'
     implementation 'xerces:xercesImpl:2.12.2'
-    implementation 'org.mustangproject:library:2.8.0' // 2.10.0 did not work, cf. OFBIZ-12920 (https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-framework/pull/712#issuecomment-1968960963)
+    implementation('org.mustangproject:library:2.8.0') { // 2.10.0 did not work, cf. OFBIZ-12920 (https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-framework/pull/712#issuecomment-1968960963)
+      exclude group: 'pull-parser', module: 'pull-parser'
+      exclude group: 'xpp3', module: 'xpp3'
+    }
 
     testImplementation 'org.hamcrest:hamcrest-library:2.2' // Enable junit4 to not depend on hamcrest-1.3
     testImplementation 'org.mockito:mockito-core:5.10.0'