diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 553e0b4324..d18f15bae8 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -851,6 +851,17 @@
                 <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
                 <artifactId>commons-dbcp2</artifactId>
                 <version>${dependency.commons-dbcp.version}</version>
+                <exclusions>
+                <!-- Exclude jakarta.transaction-api so that other repositories importing
+                     the alfresco-repository as a dependency, not having community-repo as
+                     a parent, and therefore not sharing the dependencyManagement with it,
+                     won't inherit the outdated jakarta.transaction-api version coming from
+                     this library -->
+                    <exclusion>
+                        <groupId>jakarta.transaction</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>jakarta.transaction-api</artifactId>
+                    </exclusion>
+                </exclusions>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>