diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 432d7ebaee..4032f7c6e1 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.htmlunit</groupId>
         <artifactId>htmlunit</artifactId>
-        <version>4.4.0</version>
+        <version>4.5.0</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <!-- used in the unit tests and maven-shared-utils:3.3.4 -->
diff --git a/surefire-its/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/surefire/its/jiras/Surefire260TestWithIdenticalNamesIT.java b/surefire-its/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/surefire/its/jiras/Surefire260TestWithIdenticalNamesIT.java
index 995ec35615..5438b5e231 100644
--- a/surefire-its/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/surefire/its/jiras/Surefire260TestWithIdenticalNamesIT.java
+++ b/surefire-its/src/test/java/org/apache/maven/surefire/its/jiras/Surefire260TestWithIdenticalNamesIT.java
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ public void testWithIdenticalNames() throws IOException {
         final URI uri = reportsFile.toURI();
 
         try (WebClient webClient = new WebClient()) {
+            webClient.getOptions().setThrowExceptionOnScriptError(false);
             HtmlPage page = webClient.getPage(uri.toURL());
             HtmlAnchor a = (HtmlAnchor)
                     page.getByXPath("//a[@href = \"javascript:toggleDisplay('surefire260.TestB.testDup');\"]")