diff --git a/CHANGELOG.adoc b/CHANGELOG.adoc
index 9517cf3ea..1dd1613ed 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.adoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.adoc
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ This document provides a high-level view of the changes introduced by release.
 - Make wrap-on-typing work for AsciiDoc without chopping an existing line into small chunks (#1653)
 - Handle YAML parsing errors when showing an editor notification about missing information in the Antora component descriptor (#1753)
 - Preventing NPE when creating a missing file (#1754)
+- Preventing NPE when parsing block attributes for listings (#1755)
 
 === 0.43.4
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/asciidoc/intellij/psi/AsciiDocListing.java b/src/main/java/org/asciidoc/intellij/psi/AsciiDocListing.java
index d6c2b8a29..532845e59 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/asciidoc/intellij/psi/AsciiDocListing.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/asciidoc/intellij/psi/AsciiDocListing.java
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ public boolean validateContent() {
       AsciiDocBlockAttributes blockAttributes = PsiTreeUtil.findChildOfType(this, AsciiDocBlockAttributes.class);
       if (blockAttributes != null) {
         String[] attr = blockAttributes.getAttributes();
-        if (attr.length > 0 && attr[0].contains("%novalidate")) {
+        if (attr != null && attr.length > 0 && attr[0].contains("%novalidate")) {
           return false;
         }
         String opts = blockAttributes.getAttribute("opts");