diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b422ba4..fd97c72 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ argparse==1.4.0
 clastic==0.4.3
 mwoauth==0.2.8
 oauthlib==2.0.1
-requests==2.12.4
+requests==2.20.0
 requests-oauthlib==0.7.0
 six==1.10.0
 wsgiref==0.1.2