diff --git a/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark/package.json b/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark/package.json
index 72d8da3e2e18a..cf4e1dedc93d0 100644
--- a/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark/package.json
+++ b/packages/gatsby-transformer-remark/package.json
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
     "remark-retext": "^3.1.3",
     "remark-stringify": "6.0.4",
     "retext-english": "^3.0.4",
-    "sanitize-html": "^1.27.5",
+    "sanitize-html": "^2.0.0",
     "underscore.string": "^3.3.5",
     "unified": "^6.2.0",
     "unist-util-remove-position": "^1.1.4",