diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index 0e985a29c7..cf5c61983e 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ docx2txt==0.8
 python-pptx==1.0.2
 unstructured==0.16.17
 nltk==3.9.1
-Markdown==3.8.2
+Markdown==3.9
 pypandoc==1.15
 pandas==2.2.3
 openpyxl==3.1.5