diff --git a/requirements/common_constraints.txt b/requirements/common_constraints.txt
index 18ff1b20a0..0cc87d8f01 100644
--- a/requirements/common_constraints.txt
+++ b/requirements/common_constraints.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ elasticsearch<7.14.0
 # django-simple-history>3.0.0 adds indexing and causes a lot of migrations to be affected
 
 
-# tox>4.0.0 isn't yet compatible with many tox plugins, causing CI failures in almost all repos.
-# Details can be found in this discussion: https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/discussions/1810
-tox<4.0.0
+# virtualenv latest version requires platformdirs<4.0 which conflicts with tox>4.0 version
+# This constraint can be removed once the issue 
+# https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/2666 gets resolved 
+platformdirs<4.0
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index b55574827e..b2c62281a6 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ commands =
 deps = 
     -r{toxinidir}/requirements/base.txt
 commands = 
-    {toxinidir}/edx_proctoring/scripts/version_check.py
+    python {toxinidir}/edx_proctoring/scripts/version_check.py
 
 [testenv:pii_check]
 allowlist_externals =