diff --git a/package/wget/wget.hash b/package/wget/wget.hash
index 8ef92bf5b..f9a274ec7 100644
--- a/package/wget/wget.hash
+++ b/package/wget/wget.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-sha256	9261dd090a17687b6dc0682a257e90a926def15624b650e8f799af57e5c8b0e7	wget-1.16.tar.xz
+sha256	2b96c707ee15fe847f5bc2f872a7a530dca803b927a750419b44f50803e14d33  wget-1.16.1.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/wget/wget.mk b/package/wget/wget.mk
index e50981e67..b19c98722 100644
--- a/package/wget/wget.mk
+++ b/package/wget/wget.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-WGET_VERSION = 1.16
+WGET_VERSION = 1.16.1
 WGET_SOURCE = wget-$(WGET_VERSION).tar.xz
 WGET_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/wget
 WGET_LICENSE = GPLv3+