diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 7cb8354..1688357 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Flask-SQLAlchemy==2.1
 itsdangerous==0.24
 Jinja2==2.8
 MarkupSafe==0.23
-mysql-connector-python==2.0.4
+mysql-connector-python==8.0.15
 requests==2.9.1
 short-url==1.2.1
 SQLAlchemy==1.0.11