diff --git a/build.sbt b/build.sbt
index 9eb99800e..511fc9efa 100644
--- a/build.sbt
+++ b/build.sbt
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ ThisBuild / scalacOptions := Seq(
 // See https://support.snyk.io/hc/en-us/articles/9590215676189-Deeply-nested-Scala-projects-have-dependencies-truncated
 ThisBuild / asciiGraphWidth := 999999999
 
-val languageToolVersion = "6.7"
+val languageToolVersion = "6.8"
 val awsSdkVersion = "2.42.31"
 val capiModelsVersion = "34.0.0"
 val capiClientVersion = "40.0.0"
@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ val commonSettings = Seq(
     "com.google.apis" % "google-api-services-sheets" % "v4-rev20221216-2.0.0",
     "org.languagetool" % "languagetool-core" % languageToolVersion,
     "org.languagetool" % "language-en" % languageToolVersion,
+    // Needed to evict vulnerable transitive version: 1.9.4
+    "org.apache.opennlp" % "opennlp-tools" % "2.5.9",
     "com.gu" %% "content-api-models-scala" % capiModelsVersion,
     "com.gu" %% "content-api-models-json" % capiModelsVersion,
     "com.gu" %% "content-api-client-default" % capiClientVersion,