diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ffb85cd6..fdee6a51 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ rich = ["rich", "rich-argparse>=1"]
 # so the CLI docs generated from --help are consistent
 docs = [
     "typeshed-stats[rich]",
-    "MarkDown==3.4.3",
+    "MarkDown==3.3.7",
     "mkdocs==1.4.3",
     "mkdocs-macros-plugin==1.0.1",
     "mkdocs-material==9.1.18",