diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 3bb457675..4f0fe1993 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
     "devDependencies": {
         "vows":         "~0.7.0",
         "feedparser":   "0.16",
-        "mongoose":     "4.0.3"
+        "mongoose":     "5.13.20"
     },
 
     "iframely-proxy-plugins": true,