diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8b77c8f7..7171bc79 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@
         <woodstox.version>6.5.1</woodstox.version>
         <wsdl4j.version>1.6.3</wsdl4j.version>
         <wss4j.version>2.4.1</wss4j.version>
+        <wss4j-next.version>3.0.0</wss4j-next.version>
         <xmlsec.version>3.0.2</xmlsec.version>
         <xml-schema-core.version>2.2.2</xml-schema-core.version>
         <xmlunit1.version>1.6</xmlunit1.version>
@@ -351,7 +352,7 @@
         <profile>
             <id>wss4j-next</id>
             <properties>
-                <wss4j.version>3.0.0</wss4j.version>
+                <wss4j.version>${wss4j-next.version}</wss4j.version>
             </properties>
         </profile>