diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index a948ee2..b4c873a 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Pillow==4.0.0
 premailer
 populus
 psycopg2-binary==2.7.5
-PyJWT==1.5.3
+PyJWT==2.4.0
 PyPdf2
 python-twitter==3.2
 sendgrid==5.6.0