diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index a82da19665e..eebcb4d732e 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ passlib[bcrypt]==1.7.4
 
 requests==2.31.0
 aiohttp==3.9.5
-peewee==3.17.3
+peewee==3.18.3
 peewee-migrate==1.12.2
 psycopg2-binary==2.9.9
 PyMySQL==1.1.0
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ sentence-transformers==2.7.0
 pypdf==4.2.0
 docx2txt==0.8
 python-pptx==0.6.23
-unstructured==0.11.8
+unstructured==0.18.18
 Markdown==3.6
 pypandoc==1.13
 pandas==2.2.2
@@ -58,4 +58,5 @@ PyJWT[crypto]==2.8.0
 black==24.4.2
 langfuse==2.27.3
 youtube-transcript-api==0.6.2
-pytube
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+pytube
+werkzeug>=3.1.4 # not directly required, pinned by Snyk to avoid a vulnerability
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