diff --git a/scripts/requirements.txt b/scripts/requirements.txt
index 4a38fe7e3..3a28112a4 100644
--- a/scripts/requirements.txt
+++ b/scripts/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Python dependencies for XLS Standards site generation and validation
 #
 # Core site generation dependencies
-markdown>=3.11,<4.0.0    # Markdown to HTML conversion with extensions
+markdown>=3.11.1,<4.0.0    # Markdown to HTML conversion with extensions
 jinja2>=3.1.6,<4.0.0      # HTML template engine
 beautifulsoup4>=4.15.0,<5.0.0  # HTML/XML parsing and metadata extraction
 pyyaml>=6.0.3,<7.0          # YAML configuration parsing