diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 050f01b063cf..b2319b3925bc 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -39,6 +39,14 @@ repos:
     rev: v1.0.1
     hooks:
       - id: zizmor
+  - repo: local
+    hooks:
+      - id: bad-pr-link
+        name: Bad PR link
+        description: Detect PR links text that don't match their URL
+        language: pygrep
+        entry: '\[(\d+)\]\(https://github.com/python/mypy/pull/(?!\1/?\))\d+/?\)'
+        files: CHANGELOG.md
   # Should be the last one:
   - repo: meta
     hooks:
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3acec84fec5d..bc3a0f83d907 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ By default, mypy treats an annotation of ``bytes`` as permitting ``bytearray`` a
 [PEP 688](https://peps.python.org/pep-0688) specified the removal of this special case.
 Use this flag to disable this behavior. `--strict-bytes` will be enabled by default in **mypy 2.0**.
 
-Contributed by Ali Hamdan (PR [18137](https://github.com/python/mypy/pull/18263/)) and
+Contributed by Ali Hamdan (PR [18263](https://github.com/python/mypy/pull/18263)) and
 Shantanu Jain (PR [13952](https://github.com/python/mypy/pull/13952)).
 
 ### Improvements to reachability analysis and partial type handling in loops
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ issues it previously did not detect. In some cases, this change may require use
 explicit annotation of a variable.
 
 Contributed by Christoph Tyralla (PR [18180](https://github.com/python/mypy/pull/18180),
-[PR](https://github.com/python/mypy/pull/18433)).
+PR [18433](https://github.com/python/mypy/pull/18433)).
 
 (Speaking of partial types, another reminder that mypy plans on enabling `--local-partial-types`
 by default in **mypy 2.0**).
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ configuration files. See the
 for more details.
 
 Contributed by Mikhail Shiryaev and Shantanu Jain
-(PR [16965](https://github.com/python/mypy/pull/16965), PR [18482](https://github.com/python/mypy/pull/18482)
+(PR [16965](https://github.com/python/mypy/pull/16965), PR [18482](https://github.com/python/mypy/pull/18482))
 
 ### Better line numbers for decorators and slice expressions