diff --git a/backend/scripts/populateCountiesCities/requirements.txt b/backend/scripts/populateCountiesCities/requirements.txt
index 0e6f50f1..78955079 100644
--- a/backend/scripts/populateCountiesCities/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/scripts/populateCountiesCities/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 beautifulsoup4==4.11.2
 pandas==1.5.1
-requests==2.28.2
+requests==2.31.0
 typer==0.7.0