diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 2e5a06cc76665..c6ba7e2924e9e 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@
     "lodash": "npm:@elastic/lodash@3.10.1-kibana3",
     "lodash.clonedeep": "^4.5.0",
     "lru-cache": "4.1.5",
-    "markdown-it": "^8.4.1",
+    "markdown-it": "^12.3.2",
     "mini-css-extract-plugin": "0.8.0",
     "minimatch": "^3.0.4",
     "mkdirp": "0.5.1",