diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 356307203..68db37173 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -209,17 +209,17 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
             <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
-            <version>2.10.5.1</version>
+            <version>2.12.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.datatype</groupId>
             <artifactId>jackson-datatype-jsr310</artifactId>
-            <version>2.10.1</version>
+            <version>2.12.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.velocity</groupId>
             <artifactId>velocity-engine-core</artifactId>
-            <version>2.1</version>
+            <version>2.2</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
@@ -229,12 +229,12 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>joda-time</groupId>
             <artifactId>joda-time</artifactId>
-            <version>2.10.5</version>
+            <version>2.10.9</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
             <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
-            <version>3.9</version>
+            <version>3.11</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
@@ -249,12 +249,12 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.jsoup</groupId>
             <artifactId>jsoup</artifactId>
-            <version>1.12.1</version>
+            <version>1.13.1</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.googlecode.owasp-java-html-sanitizer</groupId>
             <artifactId>owasp-java-html-sanitizer</artifactId>
-            <version>20191001.1</version>
+            <version>20200713.1</version>
         </dependency>
         <!-- for testing -->
         <dependency>
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.assertj</groupId>
             <artifactId>assertj-core</artifactId>
-            <version>3.14.0</version>
+            <version>3.18.1</version>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>