diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d3248ce..ee83f58 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
-            <version>2.15.1</version>
+            <version>2.16.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <!-- jsoup HTML parser library @ https://jsoup.org/ -->