diff --git a/readme/CHANGELOG b/readme/CHANGELOG
index fa5e6a3ab..8e87a32ab 100644
--- a/readme/CHANGELOG
+++ b/readme/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+version 7.3.13
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* some versions of OpenSSL would throw a zipimporter error. 7.3.13 resolves this issue
+
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 version 7.3.12
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/src/core/set.version b/src/core/set.version
index 1cef271e2..e459e6b6a 100644
--- a/src/core/set.version
+++ b/src/core/set.version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-7.3.12
+7.3.13
diff --git a/src/webattack/harvester/harvester.py b/src/webattack/harvester/harvester.py
index 91125eb5e..231a92be9 100644
--- a/src/webattack/harvester/harvester.py
+++ b/src/webattack/harvester/harvester.py
@@ -42,12 +42,13 @@ if track_email == True:
     print_status(
         "You have selected to track user accounts, Apache will automatically be turned on to handle tracking of users.")
     apache_check = True
+
 # detect openssl module
 try:
     from OpenSSL import SSL
 # handle import error that openssl is not there
-except ImportError:
-    print("Python OpenSSL wasn't detected, note that SSL compatibility is now turned off")
+except Exception:
+    print("Python OpenSSL wasn't detected or has an installation issue, note that SSL compatibility is now turned off")
 
 ############################################
 #          Credential harvester            #