diff --git a/blogsite/requirements.txt b/blogsite/requirements.txt
index d3c2b6a..703a39b 100644
--- a/blogsite/requirements.txt
+++ b/blogsite/requirements.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ python-social-auth==0.2.14
 python3-openid==3.0.9
 pytz==2015.7
 PyYAML==3.11
-requests==2.9.1
+requests==2.20.0
 requests-oauthlib==0.6.1
 urllib3==1.14
 virtualenv==14.0.6