diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/UrlValidator.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/UrlValidator.java
index 6395f2d92..5c6b9059e 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/UrlValidator.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/UrlValidator.java
@@ -118,8 +118,9 @@ public class UrlValidator implements Serializable {
     // TODO does not allow for optional userinfo.
     // Validation of character set is done by isValidAuthority
     private static final String AUTHORITY_CHARS_REGEX = "\\p{Alnum}\\-\\."; // allows for IPV4 but not IPV6
-    // Allow for IPv4 mapped addresses: ::FFF:123.123.123.123
-    private static final String IPV6_REGEX = "::FFFF:(?:\\d{1,3}\\.){3}\\d{1,3}|[0-9a-fA-F:]+"; // do this as separate match because : could cause ambiguity with port prefix
+    // Captured inside [ ] in AUTHORITY_REGEX and validated by InetAddressValidator.isValidInet6Address, so the
+    // dot is allowed for IPv4-mapped/embedded forms (for example ::ffff:1.2.3.4 or 2001:db8::1.2.3.4), not just ::FFFF:
+    private static final String IPV6_REGEX = "[0-9a-fA-F:.]+"; // the brackets remove the port-prefix ':' ambiguity
 
     // userinfo    = *( unreserved / pct-encoded / sub-delims / ":" )
     // unreserved    = ALPHA / DIGIT / "-" / "." / "_" / "~"
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/UrlValidatorTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/UrlValidatorTest.java
index 169e17bf7..8c92c2faa 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/UrlValidatorTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/commons/validator/routines/UrlValidatorTest.java
@@ -624,6 +624,18 @@ void testValidator452() {
         assertTrue(urlValidator.isValid("http://[::FFFF:129.144.52.38]:80/index.html"));
     }
 
+    @Test
+    void testIpv6EmbeddedIpv4() {
+        final UrlValidator urlValidator = new UrlValidator();
+        // ::FFFF: in upper case already worked (testValidator452); the lower-case mapped form
+        // and the other IPv4-embedded notations must validate the same way.
+        assertTrue(urlValidator.isValid("http://[::ffff:129.144.52.38]:80/index.html"));
+        assertTrue(urlValidator.isValid("http://[::1.2.3.4]/"));
+        assertTrue(urlValidator.isValid("http://[2001:db8::1.2.3.4]/"));
+        // an embedded IPv4 part with an out-of-range octet is still rejected
+        assertFalse(urlValidator.isValid("http://[::ffff:129.144.52.999]/"));
+    }
+
     @Test
     void testValidator464() {
         final String[] schemes = { "file" };