diff --git a/requirements/base.in b/requirements/base.in
index b9ccf0ee7b9bb0c17a4fc765280f77c4e5fedf83..caecafea0775aebba0cef5cd45879aa7bb0da55f 100644
--- a/requirements/base.in
+++ b/requirements/base.in
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ django-widget-tweaks
 django-simple-captcha
 psycopg2-binary
 pirates<=0.7
-whitenoise
+whitenoise==5.3.0
 opencv-python
 requests
 icalevents
diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 51e2c158af73cffb430c8d3a2728a301c34bcb85..29d9504c7d87a20a1f3d48f3b32f606522d7e7be 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -229,7 +229,6 @@ redis==4.6.0
 requests==2.31.0
     # via
     #   -r base.in
-    #   instaloader
     #   mozilla-django-oidc
     #   requests-cache
     #   requests-oauthlib
@@ -293,12 +292,12 @@ wagtail==4.2.4
     #   -r base.in
     #   wagtail-metadata
     #   wagtail-trash
-wand==0.6.13
-    # manual for now
 wagtail-metadata==4.0.3
     # via -r base.in
 wagtail-trash==1.0.1
     # via -r base.in
+wand==0.6.13
+    # via -r base.in
 wcwidth==0.2.6
     # via prompt-toolkit
 weasyprint==59.0
@@ -309,7 +308,7 @@ webencodings==0.5.1
     #   cssselect2
     #   html5lib
     #   tinycss2
-whitenoise==6.5.0
+whitenoise==5.3.0
     # via -r base.in
 willow==1.4.1
     # via wagtail