diff --git a/wise-webapp/pom.xml b/wise-webapp/pom.xml
index 8ad3d37c..eac9f6c6 100644
--- a/wise-webapp/pom.xml
+++ b/wise-webapp/pom.xml
@@ -28,9 +28,9 @@
     </repositories>
 
     <properties>
-        <org.springframework.version>5.2.10.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
-        <org.springframework.addons>5.2.5.RELEASE</org.springframework.addons>
-        <hibernate.version>5.4.23.Final</hibernate.version>
+        <org.springframework.version>5.3.14</org.springframework.version>
+        <org.springframework.addons>5.3.5.RELEASE</org.springframework.addons>
+        <hibernate.version>5.6.3.Final</hibernate.version>
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
@@ -119,21 +119,6 @@
             <version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
             <scope>compile</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.xmlgraphics</groupId>
-            <artifactId>fop</artifactId>
-            <version>2.4</version>
-            <exclusions>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>org.apache.xmlgraphics</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>fop-core</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-                <exclusion>
-                    <groupId>org.apache.xmlgraphics</groupId>
-                    <artifactId>fop-events</artifactId>
-                </exclusion>
-            </exclusions>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
             <artifactId>spring-oxm</artifactId>
@@ -252,18 +237,6 @@
             <version>1.7.25</version>
             <scope>runtime</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>xerces</groupId>
-            <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
-            <version>2.10.0</version>
-            <scope>compile</scope>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <!-- jsoup HTML parser library @ http://jsoup.org/ -->
-            <groupId>org.jsoup</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jsoup</artifactId>
-            <version>1.7.1</version>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
             <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
@@ -271,13 +244,13 @@
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-            <artifactId>fluent-hc</artifactId>
-            <version>4.5.5</version>
+            <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
+            <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
+            <version>2.6</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-            <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
+            <artifactId>fluent-hc</artifactId>
             <version>4.5.5</version>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>