diff --git a/lib/marked.js b/lib/marked.js
index 8ffcf36f54..f34e2df0bc 100644
--- a/lib/marked.js
+++ b/lib/marked.js
@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ inline.tag = edit(inline.tag)
   .replace('attribute', inline._attribute)
   .getRegex();
 
-inline._label = /(?:\[[^\[\]]*\]|\\[\[\]]?|`[^`]*`|[^\[\]\\])*?/;
+inline._label = /(?:\[[^\[\]]*\]|\\[\[\]]?|`[^`]*`|`(?!`)|[^\[\]\\`])*?/;
 inline._href = /\s*(<(?:\\[<>]?|[^\s<>\\])*>|[^\s\x00-\x1f]*)/;
 inline._title = /"(?:\\"?|[^"\\])*"|'(?:\\'?|[^'\\])*'|\((?:\\\)?|[^)\\])*\)/;