diff --git a/openedx/core/lib/safe_lxml/etree.py b/openedx/core/lib/safe_lxml/etree.py
index 9b685ac66162..42fae5f9f550 100644
--- a/openedx/core/lib/safe_lxml/etree.py
+++ b/openedx/core/lib/safe_lxml/etree.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 from lxml.etree import *  # lint-amnesty, pylint: disable=redefined-builtin
 # These private elements are used in some libraries to also defuse xml exploits for their own purposes.
 # We need to re-expose them so that the libraries still work.
-from lxml.etree import _Comment, _Element, _ElementTree, _Entity, _ProcessingInstruction
+from lxml.etree import _Comment, _Element, _ElementTree, _Entity, _ProcessingInstruction, __version__
 from .xmlparser import XML, fromstring, parse