diff --git a/dspace-api/pom.xml b/dspace-api/pom.xml
index 009b18d0ac..eb0004b3ef 100644
--- a/dspace-api/pom.xml
+++ b/dspace-api/pom.xml
@@ -659,10 +659,6 @@
             <artifactId>lucene-analyzers-stempel</artifactId>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.xmlbeans</groupId>
-            <artifactId>xmlbeans</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
 
         <!-- Tika is used to extract full text from documents in order to index in Solr -->
         <dependency>
diff --git a/dspace/modules/additions/pom.xml b/dspace/modules/additions/pom.xml
index 9df5c8ef02..2abc12b529 100644
--- a/dspace/modules/additions/pom.xml
+++ b/dspace/modules/additions/pom.xml
@@ -273,10 +273,6 @@
             <artifactId>lucene-analyzers-stempel</artifactId>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.xmlbeans</groupId>
-            <artifactId>xmlbeans</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
 
       <dependency>
          <groupId>junit</groupId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c53a58d105..9442ef1889 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1572,11 +1572,6 @@
                 <artifactId>poi-ooxml-full</artifactId>
                 <version>${poi-version}</version>
             </dependency>
-            <dependency>
-                <groupId>org.apache.xmlbeans</groupId>
-                <artifactId>xmlbeans</artifactId>
-                <version>3.1.0</version>
-            </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>xalan</groupId>
                 <artifactId>xalan</artifactId>