diff --git a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/pom.xml b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/pom.xml
index 9a19979aa..54e988c5d 100644
--- a/archiva-modules/archiva-web/pom.xml
+++ b/archiva-modules/archiva-web/pom.xml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
     <!-- TODO: review how appropriate the memory settings are - should work with less -->
     <cargo.jvm.args>-Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m</cargo.jvm.args>
     <seleniumPluginVersion>2.2</seleniumPluginVersion>
-    <selenium-server.version>2.16.0</selenium-server.version>
+    <selenium-server.version>2.18.0</selenium-server.version>
     <apache.mirror.url>http://archive.apache.org/dist</apache.mirror.url>
     <apache.archive.url>http://archive.apache.org/dist</apache.archive.url>
   </properties>