diff --git a/dev-ruby/rexml/Manifest b/dev-ruby/rexml/Manifest
index e5814609042b7..78f69b5a9787a 100644
--- a/dev-ruby/rexml/Manifest
+++ b/dev-ruby/rexml/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 DIST rexml-3.3.9.tar.gz 469735 BLAKE2B 39c8a1184b839608da0307271b853f26a253b16e1da4e8a56d024750222cca21138681d2445a869aee0c5ace63cd6fc27b7e0df0060dd0e715d3a0d03d217765 SHA512 391a31938b27d821f35fc96f66eacec1bccfb9d2e250245c15ffbdb05f140ce91a28c7f4d8e9989003ce4480270ddb6c32e0b07f73b2677249ef03e615789f46
 DIST rexml-3.4.1.tar.gz 470293 BLAKE2B 579af9ee9c534578acf6e67622f51f533fd965113d4c8654bba17b02d3ff0b9fec7a8314cda0230e8f334d94067d2664813bfed10a0be50c4be867e051d80510 SHA512 bf1221312c79a1b7601f262486c250696f520e3355a37ee34f245bec975fda0598713d65990852aac9edab6624b4d868730471139cf2ff0894a0c8f85c042aa7
 DIST rexml-3.4.2.tar.gz 473652 BLAKE2B 1b4a4ebe9021197f38cfd3d39b5171707fef5ff2d250b4e787cfc81a6a6cb37850efdb5c856e1208b5689749df4363807e10ae0b8c36c6ddb79418a5a394c7e7 SHA512 987897a3b2d25e692a2d4d38269f5f9e0e372a7504b678ee5d550d44589690841b3007606392ec14891358bd7fea86260c9874fe0c8e14b35a1ed949a4002630
+DIST rexml-3.4.3.tar.gz 474050 BLAKE2B fc0bc4810aec44c9dda8039a331ed635365c96cbc8f7b4e2284b96b68f889ff2aaa251f75880a947aacd11b8b63457a1ec273386ea1f0586be34663743f95051 SHA512 f857ed9d30e23c148d585fa48dec20e2a16dede3fa47a1ccfda41ba3004f88643ce93804cc54f0b080d7694e6ca8c0dc1a44c2288be6068a2231d895b3d061b0
diff --git a/dev-ruby/rexml/rexml-3.4.3.ebuild b/dev-ruby/rexml/rexml-3.4.3.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..a07e9737e02f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-ruby/rexml/rexml-3.4.3.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+USE_RUBY="ruby32 ruby33 ruby34"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_RECIPE_DOC="none"
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="NEWS.md README.md"
+
+RUBY_FAKEGEM_GEMSPEC="${PN}.gemspec"
+
+inherit ruby-fakegem
+
+DESCRIPTION="An XML toolkit for Ruby"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/ruby/rexml"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/ruby/rexml/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD-2"
+
+SLOT="3"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~arm64-macos ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+
+ruby_add_rdepend "dev-ruby/strscan"
+
+ruby_add_bdepend "test? ( dev-ruby/test-unit dev-ruby/test-unit-ruby-core )"
+
+all_ruby_prepare() {
+	sed -i -e 's:require_relative ":require "./:' -e 's/__dir__/"."/' ${RUBY_FAKEGEM_GEMSPEC} || die
+	sed -i -e '/bundler/I s:^:#:' Rakefile || die
+
+	# Ensure we use the (new enough) gem version of strscan. The
+	# versions bundled with ruby up to at least 3.3.1 are all too old.
+	sed -e '3igem "strscan"' \
+		-i test/helper.rb || die
+}
+
+each_ruby_test() {
+	${RUBY} test/run.rb || die
+}