diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8a4c6fd28f7..a1b33b46a4d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
 
   <properties>
     <sonarUpdateCenter.version>1.11</sonarUpdateCenter.version>
-    <sonarJava.version>2.4</sonarJava.version>
+    <sonarJava.version>2.5.1</sonarJava.version>
     <h2.version>1.3.176</h2.version>
     <jetty.version>8.1.12.v20130726</jetty.version>
     <logback.version>1.0.13</logback.version>
@@ -611,6 +611,14 @@
         <artifactId>sonar-java-plugin</artifactId>
         <version>${sonarJava.version}</version>
         <type>sonar-plugin</type>
+        <exclusions>
+          <!-- A banned dependency is bring because java-squid is using maven-project:2.07
+          This exclusion should be removed when the plugin will no more used maven-project -->
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>classworlds</groupId>
+            <artifactId>classworlds</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.codehaus.sonar-plugins.java</groupId>