diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 13b2a0d..c641138 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.json</groupId>
             <artifactId>json</artifactId>
-            <version>20180130</version>
+            <version>20230227</version>
         </dependency>
 
         <!-- For reading and writing JSON-LD -->