diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 2aed497a..6140db95 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ python_dateutil==2.7.2
 Flask==1.0.1
 geopy==1.13.0
 jinja2>=2.10.1
-lxml==4.2.1
+lxml==4.6.2
 nltk==3.4.5
 numpy==1.14.3
 pandas==0.22.0