diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 0b99ff4..f13123a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ gunicorn==23.0.0
 flask-cors==6.0.0
 requests>=2.32.2
 Mastodon.py==1.6.3
-lxml==5.1.0
+lxml==6.1.0
 cssselect==1.2.0
 cloudscraper==1.2.71
 urllib3>=2.5.0 # not directly required, pinned by Snyk to avoid a vulnerability
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