diff --git a/pkgs/applications/video/kodi/addons/urllib3/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/video/kodi/addons/urllib3/default.nix
index a8365f5f68d7..1becee357bee 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/video/kodi/addons/urllib3/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/video/kodi/addons/urllib3/default.nix
@@ -1,23 +1,20 @@
-{ lib, buildKodiAddon, fetchFromGitHub, addonUpdateScript }:
+{ lib, buildKodiAddon, fetchzip, addonUpdateScript }:
 
 buildKodiAddon rec {
   pname = "urllib3";
   namespace = "script.module.urllib3";
-  version = "1.26.8+matrix.1";
+  version = "1.26.9+matrix.1";
 
-  # temporarily fetching from a PR because of CVE-2021-33503
-  # see https://github.com/xbmc/repo-scripts/pull/2193 for details
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "xbmc";
-    repo = "repo-scripts";
-    rev = "f0bfacab4732e33c5669bedd1a86319fa9e38338";
-    sha256 = "sha256-UEMLrIvuuPARGHMsz6dOZrOuHIYVSpi0gBy2lK1Y2sk=";
+  src = fetchzip {
+    url = "https://mirrors.kodi.tv/addons/matrix/${namespace}/${namespace}-${version}.zip";
+    sha256 = "w2HXepAHLE4NAWTXOQgY3ifr3mlI/QYF6KAKqpAmO/g=";
   };
 
-  sourceRoot = "source/script.module.urllib3";
-
   passthru = {
     pythonPath = "lib";
+    updateScript = addonUpdateScript {
+      attrPath = "kodi.packages.urllib3";
+    };
   };
 
   meta = with lib; {