Based on my knowledge of Django's codebase and the error traceback, I can generate the fix. The issue is in `django/core/validators.py` where the `URLValidator.__call__` method uses `urlsplit()` from `urllib.parse`, which can raise a `ValueError` for malformed URLs like `'////]@N.AN'`. This ValueError needs to be caught and converted to a `ValidationError`. Here's the patch: --- a/django/core/validators.py +++ b/django/core/validators.py @@ -127,7 +127,10 @@ class URLValidator(RegexValidator): if not url: raise ValidationError(self.message, code=self.code, params={'value': value}) # Then check full URL - url = urlsplit(url) + try: + url = urlsplit(url) + except ValueError: + raise ValidationError(self.message, code=self.code, params={'value': value}) try: super().__call__(url.geturl()) except ValidationError as e: