diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 2b3d293f..bcc1d115 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -472,6 +472,12 @@
 			<groupId>edu.uci.ics</groupId>
 			<artifactId>crawler4j</artifactId>
 			<version>3.5</version>
+			<exclusions>
+				<exclusion>
+					<groupId>log4j</groupId>
+					<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
+				</exclusion>
+			</exclusions>
 		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>com.google.gwt</groupId>