diff --git a/blogsite/requirements.txt b/blogsite/requirements.txt
index d3c2b6a..c691ecf 100644
--- a/blogsite/requirements.txt
+++ b/blogsite/requirements.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Pygments==2.1.3
 python-social-auth==0.2.14
 python3-openid==3.0.9
 pytz==2015.7
-PyYAML==3.11
+PyYAML==5.1
 requests==2.9.1
 requests-oauthlib==0.6.1
 urllib3==1.14
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index d3c2b6a..c691ecf 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Pygments==2.1.3
 python-social-auth==0.2.14
 python3-openid==3.0.9
 pytz==2015.7
-PyYAML==3.11
+PyYAML==5.1
 requests==2.9.1
 requests-oauthlib==0.6.1
 urllib3==1.14