diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index fed48cbcaedf..583733191359 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -4,6 +4,18 @@ import com.automattic.android.measure.reporters.SlowSlowTasksMetricsReporter
 import org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.dsl.JvmTarget
 import org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.tasks.KotlinCompile
 
+buildscript {
+    dependencies {
+        // TODO: Remove once dependency-analysis-gradle-plugin isolates its kotlin-metadata-jvm
+        //  dependency onto its own worker classpath, making this override moot (see PR below).
+        //  Interim workaround, endorsed by the plugin author, for reading Kotlin metadata newer
+        //  than DAGP's own bundled reader supports. Tracks this project's own Kotlin version.
+        //  https://github.com/autonomousapps/dependency-analysis-gradle-plugin/issues/1661
+        //  https://github.com/autonomousapps/dependency-analysis-gradle-plugin/pull/1719
+        classpath(libs.kotlin.metadata.jvm)
+    }
+}
+
 plugins {
     alias(libs.plugins.detekt)
     alias(libs.plugins.automattic.measure.builds)
diff --git a/gradle/libs.versions.toml b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
index 7a76e1cd5eec..a46626fe87e5 100644
--- a/gradle/libs.versions.toml
+++ b/gradle/libs.versions.toml
@@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ jsoup = { group = "org.jsoup", name = "jsoup", version.ref = "jsoup" }
 junit = { group = "junit", name = "junit", version.ref = "junit" }
 kotlin-compile-testing-ksp = { group = "com.github.tschuchortdev", name = "kotlin-compile-testing-ksp", version.ref = "kotlin-compile-testing" }
 kotlin-compile-testing-main = { group = "com.github.tschuchortdev", name = "kotlin-compile-testing", version.ref = "kotlin-compile-testing" }
+kotlin-metadata-jvm = { group = "org.jetbrains.kotlin", name = "kotlin-metadata-jvm", version.ref = "kotlin-main" }
 kotlin-reflect = { group = "org.jetbrains.kotlin", name = "kotlin-reflect", version.ref = "kotlin-main" }
 kotlin-test-junit = { group = "org.jetbrains.kotlin", name = "kotlin-test-junit", version.ref = "kotlin-main" }
 kotlinx-coroutines-android = { group = "org.jetbrains.kotlinx", name = "kotlinx-coroutines-android", version.ref = "kotlinx-coroutines" }