diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 16df44fb..02be9137 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1816,17 +1816,6 @@ version = "1.0.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "b9e0384b61958566e926dc50660321d12159025e767c18e043daf26b70104c39"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "idna"
-version = "0.2.3"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "418a0a6fab821475f634efe3ccc45c013f742efe03d853e8d3355d5cb850ecf8"
-dependencies = [
- "matches",
- "unicode-bidi",
- "unicode-normalization",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "idna"
 version = "0.4.0"
@@ -2143,12 +2132,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tendril",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "matches"
-version = "0.1.10"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "2532096657941c2fea9c289d370a250971c689d4f143798ff67113ec042024a5"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "mcaptcha"
 version = "0.1.0"
@@ -2194,7 +2177,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "url",
  "urlencoding",
  "uuid",
- "validator 0.15.0",
+ "validator 0.20.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -2761,6 +2744,28 @@ dependencies = [
  "version_check",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "proc-macro-error-attr2"
+version = "2.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "96de42df36bb9bba5542fe9f1a054b8cc87e172759a1868aa05c1f3acc89dfc5"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "proc-macro-error2"
+version = "2.0.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "11ec05c52be0a07b08061f7dd003e7d7092e0472bc731b4af7bb1ef876109802"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro-error-attr2",
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.93",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "proc-macro2"
 version = "1.0.92"
@@ -4200,22 +4205,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "validator"
-version = "0.15.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f07b0a1390e01c0fc35ebb26b28ced33c9a3808f7f9fbe94d3cc01e233bfeed5"
-dependencies = [
- "idna 0.2.3",
- "lazy_static",
- "regex",
- "serde",
- "serde_derive",
- "serde_json",
- "url",
- "validator_derive 0.15.0",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "validator"
 version = "0.16.1"
@@ -4233,19 +4222,19 @@ dependencies = [
 ]
 
 [[package]]
-name = "validator_derive"
-version = "0.15.0"
+name = "validator"
+version = "0.20.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ea7ed5e8cf2b6bdd64a6c4ce851da25388a89327b17b88424ceced6bd5017923"
+checksum = "43fb22e1a008ece370ce08a3e9e4447a910e92621bb49b85d6e48a45397e7cfa"
 dependencies = [
- "if_chain",
- "lazy_static",
- "proc-macro-error",
- "proc-macro2",
- "quote",
+ "idna 1.0.3",
+ "once_cell",
  "regex",
- "syn 1.0.109",
- "validator_types 0.15.0",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_derive",
+ "serde_json",
+ "url",
+ "validator_derive 0.20.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -4261,17 +4250,21 @@ dependencies = [
  "quote",
  "regex",
  "syn 1.0.109",
- "validator_types 0.16.0",
+ "validator_types",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
-name = "validator_types"
-version = "0.15.0"
+name = "validator_derive"
+version = "0.20.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "d2ddf34293296847abfc1493b15c6e2f5d3cd19f57ad7d22673bf4c6278da329"
+checksum = "b7df16e474ef958526d1205f6dda359fdfab79d9aa6d54bafcb92dcd07673dca"
 dependencies = [
+ "darling 0.20.11",
+ "once_cell",
+ "proc-macro-error2",
  "proc-macro2",
- "syn 1.0.109",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.93",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index dc8cc189..a60020f6 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ sqlx = { version = "0.8", features = [ "runtime-tokio-rustls", "postgres", "time
 argon2-creds = { branch = "master", git = "https://github.com/realaravinth/argon2-creds"}
 #argon2-creds = { version="*", path = "../../argon2-creds/" }
 config = "0.15"
-validator = { version = "0.15", features = ["derive"]}
+validator = { version = "0.20", features = ["derive"]}
 
 derive_builder = "0.20"
 derive_more = "0.99"