diff --git a/middleware/VerifyCsrfTokenMiddleware.php b/middleware/VerifyCsrfTokenMiddleware.php
index 088e160..94caf4a 100644
--- a/middleware/VerifyCsrfTokenMiddleware.php
+++ b/middleware/VerifyCsrfTokenMiddleware.php
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 use Illuminate\Routing\Redirector;
 use October\Rain\Cookie\Middleware\EncryptCookies;
 use RuntimeException;
+use Throwable;
 
 /**
  * Class VerifyCsrfTokenMiddleware
@@ -124,6 +125,10 @@ private function getTokenFromRequest(Request $request): string
             $token = $this->encrypter->decrypt($header, EncryptCookies::serialized('XSRF-TOKEN'));
         }
 
-        return (string) $token;
+        try {
+            return (string) $token;
+        } catch (Throwable $e) {
+            return '';
+        }
     }
 }
diff --git a/updates/version.yaml b/updates/version.yaml
index a3aa967..77c226e 100644
--- a/updates/version.yaml
+++ b/updates/version.yaml
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 1.0.0: "First version of Vdlp.Csrf -- See: https://github.com/vdlp/oc-csrf-plugin/releases/tag/1.0.0"
 1.1.0: "Added configuration to exclude paths from CSRF validation -- See: https://github.com/vdlp/oc-csrf-plugin/releases/tag/1.1.0"
+1.1.1: "Prevent error on CSRF token conversion -- See: https://github.com/vdlp/oc-csrf-plugin/releases/tag/1.1.1"