diff --git a/docs/shared/requirements.txt b/docs/shared/requirements.txt
index bbda26ef24..48bfee0c39 100644
--- a/docs/shared/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/shared/requirements.txt
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ pytz==2015.2
 PyYAML==3.10
 requests==2.3.0
 Shapely==1.2.16
-sorl-thumbnail==11.12
+sorl-thumbnail==12.3
 South==1.0.1
 sympy==0.7.1
 xmltodict==0.4.1
diff --git a/requirements/edx/base.txt b/requirements/edx/base.txt
index 80e2bb2fcf..f888312184 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/edx/base.txt
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ requests-oauthlib==0.4.1
 scipy==0.14.0
 Shapely==1.2.16
 singledispatch==3.4.0.2
-sorl-thumbnail==11.12
+sorl-thumbnail==12.3
 sortedcontainers==0.9.2
 South==1.0.1
 stevedore==0.14.1