diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 052646af9f8..3f797f4998f 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ dependencies {
 
     compile group: 'org.apache.commons', name: 'commons-csv', version: '1.7'
 
-    compile group: 'org.apache.tika', name: 'tika-core', version: '1.22'
+    compile group: 'org.apache.tika', name: 'tika-core', version: '1.23'
 
     // required for reading write-protected PDFs - see https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/942#issuecomment-209252635
     compile 'org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on:1.64'