diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 83012071f..0e73e9cde 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ lxml==4.9.1
 # useful as a reference.
 django-markitup==3.7.0
 
-requests==2.20.0
+requests==2.31.0
 elasticsearch==1.9.0
 django-haystack==2.8.1
 # Required (but not a declared requirement) of elasticsearch