diff --git a/package/python-markdown2/0001-Fix-for-issue-348-incomplete-tags-with-punctuation-after-as-part-of.patch b/package/python-markdown2/0001-Fix-for-issue-348-incomplete-tags-with-punctuation-after-as-part-of.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ee980e22e8..0000000000
--- a/package/python-markdown2/0001-Fix-for-issue-348-incomplete-tags-with-punctuation-after-as-part-of.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,53 +0,0 @@
-From 9144d0fc5d5249cc4d81287ee79091806e6dde52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Gareth Simpson <gareth.simpson@zoodigital.com>
-Date: Fri, 1 May 2020 19:31:21 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] Fix for issue 348 - incomplete tags with punctuation after as
- part of the tag name are a source of XSS
-
-Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
-[Retrieved from:
-https://github.com/trentm/python-markdown2/commit/9144d0fc5d5249cc4d81287ee79091806e6dde52]
----
- lib/markdown2.py                           | 2 +-
- test/tm-cases/issue348_incomplete_tag.html | 1 +
- test/tm-cases/issue348_incomplete_tag.opts | 1 +
- test/tm-cases/issue348_incomplete_tag.text | 1 +
- 4 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
- create mode 100644 test/tm-cases/issue348_incomplete_tag.html
- create mode 100644 test/tm-cases/issue348_incomplete_tag.opts
- create mode 100644 test/tm-cases/issue348_incomplete_tag.text
-
-diff --git a/lib/markdown2.py b/lib/markdown2.py
-index 3a5d5d9..636bf07 100755
---- a/lib/markdown2.py
-+++ b/lib/markdown2.py
-@@ -2164,7 +2164,7 @@ def _encode_amps_and_angles(self, text):
-         text = self._naked_gt_re.sub('&gt;', text)
-         return text
- 
--    _incomplete_tags_re = re.compile("<(/?\w+[\s/]+?)")
-+    _incomplete_tags_re = re.compile("<(/?\w+?(?!://).?[\s/]+?)")
- 
-     def _encode_incomplete_tags(self, text):
-         if self.safe_mode not in ("replace", "escape"):
-diff --git a/test/tm-cases/issue348_incomplete_tag.html b/test/tm-cases/issue348_incomplete_tag.html
-new file mode 100644
-index 0000000..46059cc
---- /dev/null
-+++ b/test/tm-cases/issue348_incomplete_tag.html
-@@ -0,0 +1 @@
-+<p>&lt;lol@/ //id="pwn"//onclick="alert(1)"//<strong>abc</strong></p>
-diff --git a/test/tm-cases/issue348_incomplete_tag.opts b/test/tm-cases/issue348_incomplete_tag.opts
-new file mode 100644
-index 0000000..ad487c0
---- /dev/null
-+++ b/test/tm-cases/issue348_incomplete_tag.opts
-@@ -0,0 +1 @@
-+{"safe_mode": "escape"}
-diff --git a/test/tm-cases/issue348_incomplete_tag.text b/test/tm-cases/issue348_incomplete_tag.text
-new file mode 100644
-index 0000000..bb4a0de
---- /dev/null
-+++ b/test/tm-cases/issue348_incomplete_tag.text
-@@ -0,0 +1 @@
-+<lol@/ //id="pwn"//onclick="alert(1)"//**abc**
diff --git a/package/python-markdown2/0002-Better-fix-for-issue-348.patch b/package/python-markdown2/0002-Better-fix-for-issue-348.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 127bb51da2..0000000000
--- a/package/python-markdown2/0002-Better-fix-for-issue-348.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-From 0c0543846fa54281e2269b0bff841a0b9ffe23fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: Gareth Simpson <gareth.simpson@zoodigital.com>
-Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 21:22:36 +0100
-Subject: [PATCH] Better fix for issue 348
-
-Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice@gmail.com>
-[Retrieved from:
-https://github.com/trentm/python-markdown2/commit/0c0543846fa54281e2269b0bff841a0b9ffe23fe]
----
- lib/markdown2.py | 5 ++++-
- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/lib/markdown2.py b/lib/markdown2.py
-index 636bf07..be86502 100755
---- a/lib/markdown2.py
-+++ b/lib/markdown2.py
-@@ -2164,11 +2164,14 @@ def _encode_amps_and_angles(self, text):
-         text = self._naked_gt_re.sub('&gt;', text)
-         return text
- 
--    _incomplete_tags_re = re.compile("<(/?\w+?(?!://).?[\s/]+?)")
-+    _incomplete_tags_re = re.compile("<(/?\w+?(?!\w).+?[\s/]+?)")
- 
-     def _encode_incomplete_tags(self, text):
-         if self.safe_mode not in ("replace", "escape"):
-             return text
-+            
-+        if text.endswith(">"):
-+            return text  # this is not an incomplete tag, this is a link in the form <http://x.y.z>
- 
-         return self._incomplete_tags_re.sub("&lt;\\1", text)
- 
diff --git a/package/python-markdown2/python-markdown2.mk b/package/python-markdown2/python-markdown2.mk
index 095f672028..c7858a3966 100644
--- a/package/python-markdown2/python-markdown2.mk
+++ b/package/python-markdown2/python-markdown2.mk
@@ -11,8 +11,4 @@ PYTHON_MARKDOWN2_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
 PYTHON_MARKDOWN2_LICENSE = MIT
 PYTHON_MARKDOWN2_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE.txt
 
-# 0001-Fix-for-issue-348-incomplete-tags-with-punctuation-after-as-part-of.patch
-# 0002-Better-fix-for-issue-348.patch
-PYTHON_MARKDOWN2_IGNORE_CVES += CVE-2020-11888
-
 $(eval $(python-package))