diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bb20a92a..1c875ba9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ ignores common forms of "front matter". To match differently, specify a custom
 The default value:
 
 ```js
-/^(---|\+\+\+)$[^]*?^\1$(\r\n|\r|\n)/m
+/((^---$[^]*?^---$)|(^\+\+\+$[^]*?^(\+\+\+|\.\.\.)$))(\r\n|\r|\n|$)/m
 ```
 
 Ignores [YAML](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML) and
diff --git a/lib/shared.js b/lib/shared.js
index cec21296..e6f516cb 100644
--- a/lib/shared.js
+++ b/lib/shared.js
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
 module.exports.newLineRe = /\r[\n\u0085]?|[\n\u2424\u2028\u0085]/;
 
 // Regular expression for matching common front matter (YAML and TOML)
-module.exports.frontMatterRe = /^(---|\+\+\+)$[^]*?^\1$(\r\n|\r|\n|$)/m;
+module.exports.frontMatterRe =
+  /((^---$[^]*?^---$)|(^\+\+\+$[^]*?^(\+\+\+|\.\.\.)$))(\r\n|\r|\n|$)/m;
 
 // Regular expression for matching inline disable/enable comments
 const inlineCommentRe =
diff --git a/test/front-matter-title-pandoc.json b/test/front-matter-title-pandoc.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..054e8566
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/front-matter-title-pandoc.json
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+{
+  "default": true,
+  "MD041": true
+}
diff --git a/test/front-matter-title-pandoc.md b/test/front-matter-title-pandoc.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..469c602b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/front-matter-title-pandoc.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
++++
+title: "Welcome to pandoc!"
+date:  2015-11-17 16:16:01 -0600
+...
+
+Some plain text here.