diff --git a/doc/user/lua-plugins.rst b/doc/user/lua-plugins.rst
index f7d7a55a..c2683266 100644
--- a/doc/user/lua-plugins.rst
+++ b/doc/user/lua-plugins.rst
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ The Lua API available to plugins is limited to the following calls::
 
     assert  error   ipairs  next     pairs  tonumber
     pcall   select  print   tostring type   xpcall
-    table   string  math
+    table   string  math    _VERSION
 
 It is not possible to e.g. use the ``io`` module from a script.
 
diff --git a/src/libinput-plugin-lua.c b/src/libinput-plugin-lua.c
index 86158a60..c11998f3 100644
--- a/src/libinput-plugin-lua.c
+++ b/src/libinput-plugin-lua.c
@@ -1221,8 +1221,8 @@ libinput_lua_plugin_init_lua(struct libinput *libinput,
 
 	luaopen_base(L);
 	static const char *allowed_funcs[] = {
-		"assert", "error",  "ipairs",   "next",     "pcall", "pairs",
-		"print",  "select", "tonumber", "tostring", "type",  "xpcall",
+		"assert", "error",    "ipairs",   "next", "pcall",  "pairs",    "print",
+		"select", "tonumber", "tostring", "type", "xpcall", "_VERSION",
 	};
 	ARRAY_FOR_EACH(allowed_funcs, func) {
 		lua_getglobal(L, *func);