diff --git a/app/server/appsmith-plugins/graphqlPlugin/pom.xml b/app/server/appsmith-plugins/graphqlPlugin/pom.xml
index ff23fda2ad..4a469ef6e5 100644
--- a/app/server/appsmith-plugins/graphqlPlugin/pom.xml
+++ b/app/server/appsmith-plugins/graphqlPlugin/pom.xml
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.graphql-java</groupId>
             <artifactId>graphql-java</artifactId>
-            <version>19.0</version>
+            <version>20.1</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
             <exclusions>
                 <exclusion>
diff --git a/app/server/appsmith-plugins/graphqlPlugin/src/test/java/com/external/plugins/GraphQLPluginTest.java b/app/server/appsmith-plugins/graphqlPlugin/src/test/java/com/external/plugins/GraphQLPluginTest.java
index e087200085..e81b988aac 100644
--- a/app/server/appsmith-plugins/graphqlPlugin/src/test/java/com/external/plugins/GraphQLPluginTest.java
+++ b/app/server/appsmith-plugins/graphqlPlugin/src/test/java/com/external/plugins/GraphQLPluginTest.java
@@ -277,9 +277,9 @@ public class GraphQLPluginTest {
         StepVerifier.create(resultMono)
                 .verifyErrorSatisfies(error -> {
                     assertTrue(error instanceof AppsmithPluginException);
-                    String expectedMessage = "Invalid GraphQL body: Invalid Syntax : There are more tokens in the " +
-                            "query that have not been consumed offending token '}' at line 8 column 1";
-                    assertTrue(expectedMessage.equals(error.getMessage()));
+                    String expectedMessage = "Invalid GraphQL body: Invalid syntax encountered. There are extra " +
+                            "tokens in the text that have not been consumed. Offending token '}' at line 8 column 1";
+                    assertEquals(expectedMessage, error.getMessage());
                 });
     }
 
diff --git a/app/server/appsmith-server/pom.xml b/app/server/appsmith-server/pom.xml
index 708f6f22d7..e27c80dccc 100644
--- a/app/server/appsmith-server/pom.xml
+++ b/app/server/appsmith-server/pom.xml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.graphql-java</groupId>
             <artifactId>graphql-java</artifactId>
-            <version>19.0</version>
+            <version>20.1</version>
             <exclusions>
                 <exclusion>
                     <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>