diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9fb297a4990..8417f8184f6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ classifiers = [
 # Core dependencies (consolidated from requirements.txt)
 dependencies = [
     "Pillow==12.1.1",
-    "lxml==5.2.1",
+    "lxml==6.1.0",
     "psycopg2==2.9.9",
     "Django==5.2.13",