diff --git a/external/libwpd/0001-const-up-tibetanMap1-to-move-out-of-data-section.patch.1 b/external/libwpd/0001-const-up-tibetanMap1-to-move-out-of-data-section.patch.1
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b72f6b48da81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/external/libwpd/0001-const-up-tibetanMap1-to-move-out-of-data-section.patch.1
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+From 25b5652b66fb7db429e5a5b4c6d484c96b37c532 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Caol=C3=A1n=20McNamara?= <caolan.mcnamara@collabora.com>
+Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:37:15 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] const up tibetanMap1 to move out of data section
+
+---
+ src/lib/WP6TibetanMap.h | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/src/lib/WP6TibetanMap.h b/src/lib/WP6TibetanMap.h
+index 6d4545de..39038cfc 100644
+--- a/src/lib/WP6TibetanMap.h
++++ b/src/lib/WP6TibetanMap.h
+@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ const unsigned tibetan_1_250[] = { 0x0F7C, 0x0F7E, 0 };
+ const unsigned tibetan_1_251[] = { 0x0F7D, 0x0F7E, 0 };
+ const unsigned tibetan_1_252[] = { 0x0F84, 0 };
+ 
+-const unsigned *tibetanMap1[] =
++const unsigned* const tibetanMap1[] =
+ {
+ 	nullptr,
+ 	nullptr,
+-- 
+2.49.0
+
diff --git a/external/libwpd/UnpackedTarball_libwpd.mk b/external/libwpd/UnpackedTarball_libwpd.mk
index c72baa515d09..3e8cea767584 100644
--- a/external/libwpd/UnpackedTarball_libwpd.mk
+++ b/external/libwpd/UnpackedTarball_libwpd.mk
@@ -15,11 +15,15 @@ $(eval $(call gb_UnpackedTarball_set_patchlevel,libwpd,0))
 
 $(eval $(call gb_UnpackedTarball_update_autoconf_configs,libwpd))
 
+# external/libwpd/0001-const-up-tibetanMap1-to-move-out-of-data-section.patch.1
+# upstream effort as: https://sourceforge.net/p/libwpd/code/merge-requests/1/
+
 $(eval $(call gb_UnpackedTarball_add_patches,libwpd,\
 	external/libwpd/libwpd-vs2013.patch.1 \
 	external/libwpd/tdf153034_3_WrongGreekCharactersWP5Import.patch \
 	$(if $(SYSTEM_REVENGE),,external/libwpd/rpath.patch) \
 	external/libwpd/include.patch \
+	external/libwpd/0001-const-up-tibetanMap1-to-move-out-of-data-section.patch.1 \
 ))
 
 ifneq ($(OS),MACOSX)