diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 97312c1cb55facb38c19e2bb12202f71a9272aa0..442827f85aad2426a9781294794c3bb0fc49dce8 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ gem "leaflet-rails",       "1.6.0"
 
 gem "nokogiri",          "1.10.9"
 gem "open_graph_reader", "0.7.0" # also update User-Agent in features/support/webmock.rb
-gem "redcarpet",         "3.4.0"
+gem "redcarpet",         "3.5.0"
 gem "ruby-oembed",       "0.12.0"
 gem "twitter-text",      "1.14.7"
 
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index fdbc053db1d595f2c76e33242b93a056c631b0aa..bf440ebc46d043edd59cbcca8a77f49ba36765ea 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ GEM
     rb-fsevent (0.10.3)
     rb-inotify (0.10.1)
       ffi (~> 1.0)
-    redcarpet (3.4.0)
+    redcarpet (3.5.0)
     redis (3.3.5)
     regexp_parser (1.7.0)
     request_store (1.5.0)
@@ -895,7 +895,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   rails-timeago (= 2.17.1)
   rb-fsevent (= 0.10.3)
   rb-inotify (= 0.10.1)
-  redcarpet (= 3.4.0)
+  redcarpet (= 3.5.0)
   redis (= 3.3.5)
   responders (= 2.4.1)
   rqrcode (= 0.10.1)