diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index f687130328..a401a31e62 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ docx2txt==0.8
 python-pptx==1.0.2
 unstructured==0.16.17
 nltk==3.9.1
-Markdown==3.7
+Markdown==3.8.2
 pypandoc==1.15
 pandas==2.2.3
 openpyxl==3.1.5