diff --git a/grails-docs/build.gradle b/grails-docs/build.gradle
index 100c1ba2846..534ec0281b0 100644
--- a/grails-docs/build.gradle
+++ b/grails-docs/build.gradle
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ dependencies {
             'org.yaml:snakeyaml:1.29',
             "org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-ant:$groovyVersion"
 
-    compile 'org.asciidoctor:asciidoctorj:2.5.2'
+    compile 'org.asciidoctor:asciidoctorj:2.5.4'
     compile('org.xhtmlrenderer:core-renderer:8.0') {
         exclude group: 'bouncycastle', module:'bcprov-jdk14'
     }