diff --git a/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/data/db.js b/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/data/db.js
index e537c54677..482180fcde 100644
--- a/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/data/db.js
+++ b/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/data/db.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import Dexie from 'dexie';
 import 'dexie-observable';
-import uuidv4 from 'uuid/v4';
+import { v4 as uuidv4 } from 'uuid';
 import { APP_ID } from './constants';
 
 if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production') {
diff --git a/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/data/resources.js b/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/data/resources.js
index f42864f2dc..5686301574 100644
--- a/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/data/resources.js
+++ b/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/data/resources.js
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import sortBy from 'lodash/sortBy';
 import uniq from 'lodash/uniq';
 import uniqBy from 'lodash/uniqBy';
 
-import uuidv4 from 'uuid/v4';
+import { v4 as uuidv4 } from 'uuid';
 import {
   CHANGE_TYPES,
   CHANGES_TABLE,
diff --git a/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/mixins/draggable/base.js b/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/mixins/draggable/base.js
index e435ab448e..db3ac8d9a1 100644
--- a/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/mixins/draggable/base.js
+++ b/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/mixins/draggable/base.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { mapState } from 'vuex';
-import uuidv4 from 'uuid/v4';
+import { v4 as uuidv4 } from 'uuid';
 import { DraggableIdentityHelper } from 'shared/vuex/draggablePlugin/module/utils';
 
 export default {
diff --git a/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/views/MarkdownEditor/plugins/registerCustomMarkdownField.js b/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/views/MarkdownEditor/plugins/registerCustomMarkdownField.js
index 5e1725b07f..250ae5b30f 100644
--- a/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/views/MarkdownEditor/plugins/registerCustomMarkdownField.js
+++ b/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/views/MarkdownEditor/plugins/registerCustomMarkdownField.js
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import Vue from 'vue';
 import vueCustomElement from 'vue-custom-element';
-import uuid from 'uuid/v4';
+import { v4 as uuidv4 } from 'uuid';
 
 export default VueComponent => {
   const dashed = camel => camel.replace(/([a-zA-Z])(?=[A-Z])/g, '$1-').toLowerCase();
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ export default VueComponent => {
 
       // a hack to prevent squire from merging custom element spans
       // see here: https://github.com/nhn/tui.editor/blob/master/libs/squire/source/Node.js#L92-L101
-      this.classList.add(`markdown-field-${uuid()}`);
+      this.classList.add(`markdown-field-${uuidv4()}`);
 
       // pass innerHTML of host element as the `markdown` property
       this.observer = new MutationObserver(mutations => {
diff --git a/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/vuex/indexedDBPlugin/index.spec.js b/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/vuex/indexedDBPlugin/index.spec.js
index 6af26e45fe..9c24b32b67 100644
--- a/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/vuex/indexedDBPlugin/index.spec.js
+++ b/contentcuration/contentcuration/frontend/shared/vuex/indexedDBPlugin/index.spec.js
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { EventEmitter } from 'events';
-import uuidv4 from 'uuid/v4';
+import { v4 as uuidv4 } from 'uuid';
 import IndexedDBPlugin, {
   commitListener,
   dispatchListener,
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index a242dbeeb0..debf32ed22 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
     "spark-md5": "^3.0.0",
     "store2": "^2.14.2",
     "string-strip-html": "8.3.0",
-    "uuid": "^3.3.3",
+    "uuid": "^8.3.2",
     "vue": "^2.6.12",
     "vue-croppa": "^1.3.8",
     "vue-custom-element": "https://github.com/learningequality/vue-custom-element.git#master",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 21bf4d33e4..9707f40de6 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -12177,7 +12177,7 @@ utrie@^1.0.2:
   dependencies:
     base64-arraybuffer "^1.0.2"
 
-uuid@^3.3.2, uuid@^3.3.3:
+uuid@^3.3.2:
   version "3.4.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/uuid/-/uuid-3.4.0.tgz#b23e4358afa8a202fe7a100af1f5f883f02007ee"
   integrity sha512-HjSDRw6gZE5JMggctHBcjVak08+KEVhSIiDzFnT9S9aegmp85S/bReBVTb4QTFaRNptJ9kuYaNhnbNEOkbKb/A==