diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d4c8cfcd4..780779dfd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 - `cider-test`: only show diffs for collections.
 - [#3375](https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider/pull/3375): `cider-test`: don't render a newline between expected and actual, most times.
 - Improve `nrepl-dict` error reporting.
+- Bump the injected `piggieback` to [0.5.3](https://github.com/nrepl/piggieback/blob/0.5.3/CHANGES.md#053-2021-10-26).
 - Bump the injected `cider-nrepl` to [0.35](https://github.com/clojure-emacs/cider-nrepl/blob/v0.35.0/CHANGELOG.md#0350-2023-08-09).
   - Improves indentation, font-locking and other metadata support for ClojureScript.
   - Updates [Orchard](https://github.com/clojure-emacs/orchard/blob/v0.14.2/CHANGELOG.md)
diff --git a/cider.el b/cider.el
index d666c6d54..76a1a93ee 100644
--- a/cider.el
+++ b/cider.el
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ your version of Boot or Leiningen is bundling an older one."
   "List of dependencies where elements are lists of artifact name and version.
 Added to `cider-jack-in-dependencies' when doing `cider-jack-in-cljs'.")
 (put 'cider-jack-in-cljs-dependencies 'risky-local-variable t)
-(cider-add-to-alist 'cider-jack-in-cljs-dependencies "cider/piggieback" "0.5.2")
+(cider-add-to-alist 'cider-jack-in-cljs-dependencies "cider/piggieback" "0.5.3")
 
 (defvar cider-jack-in-dependencies-exclusions nil
   "List of exclusions for jack in dependencies.