diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index ccb5e7b..d6366e9 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ readability-api==1.0.2
 requests==2.18.4
 requests-oauthlib==0.8.0
 six==1.11.0
-urllib3==1.22
+urllib3==1.26.5
 vcrpy==1.9.0
 whitenoise==3.2
 wrapt==1.10.11