diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index 9a85767..a26b04b 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-requests==2.20.0
+requests==2.31.0
 tornado==4.3
 jsonschema==2.5.1