diff --git a/whatsapp_chatbot/requirements.txt b/whatsapp_chatbot/requirements.txt
index 73adc17b..25c605d7 100644
--- a/whatsapp_chatbot/requirements.txt
+++ b/whatsapp_chatbot/requirements.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ itsdangerous==1.1.0
 Jinja2==2.11.2
 MarkupSafe==1.1.1
 pkg-resources==0.0.0
-PyJWT==1.7.1
+PyJWT==2.4.0
 pytz==2020.4
 requests==2.24.0
 six==1.15.0