diff --git a/dependency-check-core/src/main/resources/dependencycheck.properties b/dependency-check-core/src/main/resources/dependencycheck.properties
index d3dbe7bdd..a2a230871 100644
--- a/dependency-check-core/src/main/resources/dependencycheck.properties
+++ b/dependency-check-core/src/main/resources/dependencycheck.properties
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ analyzer.central.enabled=true
 analyzer.central.url=https://search.maven.org/solrsearch/select
 # Note - the central query is used in a String.format(query, url, sha1)).
 # As such, it must have two %s and any other % must be escapped by doubling it
-analyzer.central.query=%s?q=1:%%22%s%%22&wt=xml
+analyzer.central.query=%s?q=1:%s&wt=xml
 
 # the URL for searching api.nodesecurity.io
 analyzer.nsp.url=https://api.nodesecurity.io/check