diff --git a/log4j-parent/pom.xml b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
index 59ea4e3ee39..a3cc816baa5 100644
--- a/log4j-parent/pom.xml
+++ b/log4j-parent/pom.xml
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
     <tomcat-juli.version>10.0.27</tomcat-juli.version>
     <velocity.version>1.7</velocity.version>
     <wiremock.version>2.35.2</wiremock.version>
-    <xmlunit.version>2.9.1</xmlunit.version>
+    <xmlunit.version>2.10.0</xmlunit.version>
     <xz.version>1.9</xz.version>
     <zstd.version>1.5.6-3</zstd.version>
 
diff --git a/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_xmlunit_xmlunit_core.xml b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_xmlunit_xmlunit_core.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f8b24e67844
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.2.x.x/update_org_xmlunit_xmlunit_core.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns https://logging.apache.org/xml/ns/log4j-changelog-0.xsd"
+       type="updated">
+  <issue id="2546" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2/pull/2546"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.xmlunit:xmlunit-core` to version `2.10.0`</description>
+</entry>