diff --git a/project/plugins.sbt b/project/plugins.sbt
index 692d8f5f0a..86fd45a7f0 100644
--- a/project/plugins.sbt
+++ b/project/plugins.sbt
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ addSbtPlugin("com.github.sbt" % "sbt-ci-release" % "1.5.12")
 
 // write markdown files with type-checked Scala
 //https://github.com/scalameta/mdoc
-addSbtPlugin("org.scalameta" % "sbt-mdoc" % "2.5.2")
+addSbtPlugin("org.scalameta" % "sbt-mdoc" % "2.5.3")
 
 //https://github.com/scalameta/sbt-scalafmt
 addSbtPlugin("org.scalameta" % "sbt-scalafmt" % "2.5.2")