diff --git a/extensions/wikidata/pom.xml b/extensions/wikidata/pom.xml
index 9c27667a2..613cde6ee 100644
--- a/extensions/wikidata/pom.xml
+++ b/extensions/wikidata/pom.xml
@@ -131,6 +131,11 @@
       <artifactId>wdtk-wikibaseapi</artifactId>
       <version>${wdtk.version}</version>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
+      <version>${jackson.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.openrefine.dependencies.wdtk</groupId>
       <artifactId>wdtk-datamodel</artifactId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e34e50abc..3fcf1745d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
     <surefire.version>2.22.2</surefire.version>
     <surefireArgs/>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-    <jackson.version>2.11.3</jackson.version>
+    <jackson.version>2.12.1</jackson.version>
     <slf4j.version>1.7.30</slf4j.version>
   </properties>