diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 6fdb1192ac6..a9ada707683 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
         <cxf.jdk.version>11</cxf.jdk.version>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <site.deploy.url>scp://people.apache.org/www/cxf.apache.org/maven-site</site.deploy.url>
-        <maven-owasp-plugin-version>8.3.1</maven-owasp-plugin-version>
+        <maven-owasp-plugin-version>8.4.0</maven-owasp-plugin-version>
     </properties>
     <distributionManagement>
         <repository>