diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a0b0511..3530f0b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ django-nose==0.1.3
 MySQL-python==1.2.3
 South==0.7.3
 django-registration==0.8
-lxml==2.3.4
+lxml==4.6.5
 django-compressor==1.1.2
 BeautifulSoup==3.2.1
 gunicorn==0.14.3