diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 46727a96a8b..e64ee9d1eb9 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ lxml==4.6.3
 Markdown==3.3.4
 mysqlclient==2.0.3
 openpyxl==3.0.7
-xlrd==1.2.0
+xlrd==2.0.1
 Pillow==8.3.0  # required by django-imagekit
 psycopg2-binary==2.9.1
 cryptography==3.4.7