diff --git a/docs/docsite/requirements.in b/docs/docsite/requirements.in
index 86997b5da267..b08b7c7cfc0b 100644
--- a/docs/docsite/requirements.in
+++ b/docs/docsite/requirements.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # This requirements file is used for AWX latest doc builds.
 
-sphinx # Tooling to build HTML from RST source.
+sphinx <= 7.2.5 # Tooling to build HTML from RST source.
 sphinx-ansible-theme # Ansible community theme for Sphinx doc builds.
 sphinx-notfound-page # Sphinx extension for custom 404 page.
 docutils # Tooling for RST processing and the swagger extension.
diff --git a/docs/docsite/requirements.txt b/docs/docsite/requirements.txt
index 17affbd80385..5cb8c49a4c6b 100644
--- a/docs/docsite/requirements.txt
+++ b/docs/docsite/requirements.txt
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ requests==2.31.0
     # via sphinx
 snowballstemmer==2.2.0
     # via sphinx
-sphinx==7.2.6
+sphinx==7.2.5
     # via
     #   -r docs/docsite/requirements.in
     #   sphinx-ansible-theme