diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7a6884de7..b2feed1b5 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1185,6 +1185,8 @@
             <excludedLink>http://mojo.codehaus.org/xml-maven-plugin</excludedLink>
             <!-- Excluded due to Maven ANTLR4 Plugin's issue #978: https://github.com/antlr/antlr4/issues/978-->
             <excludedLink>http://www.antlr.org/antlr4-maven-plugin</excludedLink>
+            <!-- till https://github.com/mojohaus/versions-maven-plugin/pull/49 -->
+            <excludedLink>http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin</excludedLink>
             <!-- Excluded due to Maven Release Plugin's issue #919: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRELEASE-919-->
             <excludedLink>http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-release-plugin/</excludedLink>
             <!-- Excluded till https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/NEXUS-9643 -->