diff --git a/requirements/dev.txt b/requirements/dev.txt
index 896602a2c2..c6e62f1d02 100644
--- a/requirements/dev.txt
+++ b/requirements/dev.txt
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ social-auth-core==1.5.0   # via social-auth-app-django
 sockjs-tornado==1.0.3
 sourcemap==0.2.1
 sphinx-rtd-theme==0.2.4
-sphinx==1.7.0
+sphinx==1.7.2
 sphinxcontrib-websupport==1.0.1  # via sphinx
 sqlalchemy==1.2.4
 statsd==3.2.1             # via django-statsd-mozilla
diff --git a/requirements/docs.in b/requirements/docs.in
index 1981a45d42..694f8c508f 100644
--- a/requirements/docs.in
+++ b/requirements/docs.in
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 # See requirements/README.md for more detail.
 
 # Needed to build RTD docs
-sphinx==1.7.0
+sphinx==1.7.2
 sphinx-rtd-theme==0.2.4
 
 # Needed to build markdown docs
diff --git a/requirements/docs.txt b/requirements/docs.txt
index 01a064c14a..38903bcdc8 100644
--- a/requirements/docs.txt
+++ b/requirements/docs.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ requests==2.18.4          # via sphinx
 six==1.11.0               # via packaging, sphinx
 snowballstemmer==1.2.1
 sphinx-rtd-theme==0.2.4
-sphinx==1.7.0
+sphinx==1.7.2
 sphinxcontrib-websupport==1.0.1  # via sphinx
 typing==3.6.4
 urllib3==1.22             # via requests