diff --git a/doxia-core/pom.xml b/doxia-core/pom.xml
index 449f43398..cbfc95d63 100644
--- a/doxia-core/pom.xml
+++ b/doxia-core/pom.xml
@@ -59,6 +59,11 @@ under the License.
       <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
       <version>3.8.1</version>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+      <artifactId>commons-text</artifactId>
+      <version>1.3</version>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
       <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
diff --git a/doxia-core/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/doxia/util/HtmlTools.java b/doxia-core/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/doxia/util/HtmlTools.java
index 925bc3fed..deeaacdbd 100644
--- a/doxia-core/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/doxia/util/HtmlTools.java
+++ b/doxia-core/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/doxia/util/HtmlTools.java
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 
 import javax.swing.text.html.HTML.Tag;
 
-import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.text.StringEscapeUtils;
 import org.apache.maven.doxia.markup.HtmlMarkup;
 import org.codehaus.plexus.util.StringUtils;