diff --git a/components/mqtt/Kconfig b/components/mqtt/Kconfig
index ec05dc69f..e0d5f318b 100644
--- a/components/mqtt/Kconfig
+++ b/components/mqtt/Kconfig
@@ -86,6 +86,13 @@ menu "ESP-MQTT Configurations"
             Default config employs API locks to protect internal structures. It is possible to disable
             these locks if the user code doesn't access MQTT API from multiple concurrent tasks
 
+    config MQTT_TASK_PRIORITY
+        int "MQTT task priority"
+        default 5
+        depends on MQTT_USE_CUSTOM_CONFIG
+        help
+            MQTT task priority. Higher number denotes higher priority.
+
     config MQTT_TASK_CORE_SELECTION_ENABLED
         bool "Enable MQTT task core selection"
         default false
diff --git a/components/mqtt/esp-mqtt b/components/mqtt/esp-mqtt
index 86fc8b758..d8e208133 160000
--- a/components/mqtt/esp-mqtt
+++ b/components/mqtt/esp-mqtt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 86fc8b7584f7f3aebf422843d84a26655e485fbe
+Subproject commit d8e20813326cb6c9fe0303fc5ba1813ccca53065