diff --git a/projects/XKCD_downloader/requirements.txt b/projects/XKCD_downloader/requirements.txt
index 34e94afcf..7ba42be60 100644
--- a/projects/XKCD_downloader/requirements.txt
+++ b/projects/XKCD_downloader/requirements.txt
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ chardet==3.0.4
 idna==2.10
 requests==2.24.0
 soupsieve==2.0.1
-urllib3==1.25.10
+urllib3==2.6.0