diff --git a/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark/package.json b/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark/package.json
index e649de7e97521..f96188fea7a1e 100644
--- a/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark/package.json
+++ b/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark/package.json
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     "remark-retext": "^3.1.0",
     "remark-stringify": "^5.0.0",
     "retext-english": "^3.0.0",
-    "sanitize-html": "^1.18.2",
+    "sanitize-html": "^2.0.0",
     "underscore.string": "^3.3.4",
     "unified": "^6.1.5",
     "unist-util-remove-position": "^1.1.2",