diff --git a/doc/whatsnew/fragments/7938.bugfix b/doc/whatsnew/fragments/7938.bugfix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1cffb9d1f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/whatsnew/fragments/7938.bugfix
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Fixes a ``ModuleNotFound`` exception when running pylint on a Django project with the ``pylint_django`` plugin enabled.
+
+Closes #7938
diff --git a/pylint/lint/pylinter.py b/pylint/lint/pylinter.py
index 5a600eb5ba..e8923ad27f 100644
--- a/pylint/lint/pylinter.py
+++ b/pylint/lint/pylinter.py
@@ -690,8 +690,8 @@ def check(self, files_or_modules: Sequence[str] | str) -> None:
                 data = None
 
         # The contextmanager also opens all checkers and sets up the PyLinter class
-        with self._astroid_module_checker() as check_astroid_module:
-            with fix_import_path(files_or_modules):
+        with fix_import_path(files_or_modules):
+            with self._astroid_module_checker() as check_astroid_module:
                 # 4) Get the AST for each FileItem
                 ast_per_fileitem = self._get_asts(fileitems, data)