diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0095d5d..cbad40b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Click==7.0
 idna==2.8
 isort==4.3.21
 lazy-object-proxy==1.4.1
-lxml==4.4.0
+lxml==4.9.1
 mccabe==0.6.1
 pylint==2.3.1
 pywikibot==4.3.0