diff --git a/webapp/src/utils/tooltip_utils.ts b/webapp/src/utils/tooltip_utils.ts
index 013ead9ef..68e29a048 100644
--- a/webapp/src/utils/tooltip_utils.ts
+++ b/webapp/src/utils/tooltip_utils.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 // See LICENSE.txt for license information.
 
 // Regex to match if a URl is valid merge request of issue URL
-const gitlabRegexPattern = /https?:\/\/(www\.)?.*\/([\w.?-]+)\/([\w-]+)\/-\/([\w-]+)\/([\d-]+$)/g;
+const gitlabRegexPattern = /https?:\/\/(www\.)?.*\/([\w.?-]+)\/([\w-]+)\/-\/([\w-]+)\/([\d-]+$)/;
 
 export const validateGitlabUrl = (url: string): boolean => {
     return gitlabRegexPattern.test(url);