diff --git a/.changeset/brave-baboons-suffer.md b/.changeset/brave-baboons-suffer.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..27225f09e1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/brave-baboons-suffer.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'svelte': patch
+---
+
+chore: update acorn parser `ecmaVersion` to parse import attributes
diff --git a/packages/svelte/src/compiler/phases/1-parse/acorn.js b/packages/svelte/src/compiler/phases/1-parse/acorn.js
index 36f7688c49..26a09abb66 100644
--- a/packages/svelte/src/compiler/phases/1-parse/acorn.js
+++ b/packages/svelte/src/compiler/phases/1-parse/acorn.js
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ export function parse(source, typescript, is_script) {
 		ast = parser.parse(source, {
 			onComment,
 			sourceType: 'module',
-			ecmaVersion: 13,
+			ecmaVersion: 16,
 			locations: true
 		});
 	} finally {
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ export function parse_expression_at(source, typescript, index) {
 	const ast = parser.parseExpressionAt(source, index, {
 		onComment,
 		sourceType: 'module',
-		ecmaVersion: 13,
+		ecmaVersion: 16,
 		locations: true
 	});