diff --git a/package/wget/wget.hash b/package/wget/wget.hash
index f9a274ec7f..dffed4e655 100644
--- a/package/wget/wget.hash
+++ b/package/wget/wget.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # Locally calculated after checking pgp signature
-sha256	2b96c707ee15fe847f5bc2f872a7a530dca803b927a750419b44f50803e14d33  wget-1.16.1.tar.xz
+sha256  a7dfde1bcb0eb135addf587a649fd0e47c1a876edef359b9197cdffd1fdcd7d5  wget-1.16.2.tar.xz
diff --git a/package/wget/wget.mk b/package/wget/wget.mk
index bd8e3789d0..382cdf7af9 100644
--- a/package/wget/wget.mk
+++ b/package/wget/wget.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-WGET_VERSION = 1.16.1
+WGET_VERSION = 1.16.2
 WGET_SOURCE = wget-$(WGET_VERSION).tar.xz
 WGET_SITE = $(BR2_GNU_MIRROR)/wget
 WGET_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf