diff --git a/epublib-tools/pom.xml b/epublib-tools/pom.xml
index 620f8a8e..09bce846 100644
--- a/epublib-tools/pom.xml
+++ b/epublib-tools/pom.xml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>net.sourceforge.htmlcleaner</groupId>
 			<artifactId>htmlcleaner</artifactId>
-			<version>2.2</version>
+			<version>2.29</version>
 			<exclusions>
 				<exclusion>
 					<groupId>org.jdom</groupId>