diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 5e2a518ddd8..2d4ce6c93f7 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -260,6 +260,9 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 * SOLR-10302: Solr's zkcli scripts now able to find the metrics libraries, which it couldn't earlier (kiran, Ishan Chattopadhyaya)
 
+* SOLR-10283: Learning to Rank (LTR) SolrFeature to reject searches with missing efi (External Feature Information) used by fq.
+  (Christine Poerschke)
+
 Optimizations
 ----------------------
 
diff --git a/solr/contrib/ltr/src/java/org/apache/solr/ltr/feature/SolrFeature.java b/solr/contrib/ltr/src/java/org/apache/solr/ltr/feature/SolrFeature.java
index 13eb96fee2a..4aa872d2e7a 100644
--- a/solr/contrib/ltr/src/java/org/apache/solr/ltr/feature/SolrFeature.java
+++ b/solr/contrib/ltr/src/java/org/apache/solr/ltr/feature/SolrFeature.java
@@ -157,6 +157,9 @@ public class SolrFeature extends Feature {
           for (String fq : fqs) {
             if ((fq != null) && (fq.trim().length() != 0)) {
               fq = macroExpander.expand(fq);
+              if (fq == null) {
+                throw new FeatureException(this.getClass().getSimpleName()+" requires efi parameter that was not passed in request.");
+              }
               final QParser fqp = QParser.getParser(fq, req);
               final Query filterQuery = fqp.getQuery();
               if (filterQuery != null) {
diff --git a/solr/contrib/ltr/src/test-files/featureExamples/external_features.json b/solr/contrib/ltr/src/test-files/featureExamples/external_features.json
index d8a9ecae6f9..5c4f12ddaa0 100644
--- a/solr/contrib/ltr/src/test-files/featureExamples/external_features.json
+++ b/solr/contrib/ltr/src/test-files/featureExamples/external_features.json
@@ -48,4 +48,10 @@
     "params" : {
         "q" : "{!field f=title}${user_query}"
     }
+}, {
+    "name" : "titlePhrasesMatch",
+    "class" : "org.apache.solr.ltr.feature.SolrFeature",
+    "params" : {
+        "fq" : [ "{!field f=title}${userTitlePhrase1}", "{!field f=title}${userTitlePhrase2}"]
+    }
 } ]
diff --git a/solr/contrib/ltr/src/test/org/apache/solr/ltr/TestSelectiveWeightCreation.java b/solr/contrib/ltr/src/test/org/apache/solr/ltr/TestSelectiveWeightCreation.java
index 5cfd999b360..7bf8373a56a 100644
--- a/solr/contrib/ltr/src/test/org/apache/solr/ltr/TestSelectiveWeightCreation.java
+++ b/solr/contrib/ltr/src/test/org/apache/solr/ltr/TestSelectiveWeightCreation.java
@@ -210,18 +210,22 @@ public class TestSelectiveWeightCreation extends TestRerankBase {
   @Test
   public void testSelectiveWeightsRequestFeaturesFromDifferentStore() throws Exception {
 
-    final String docs0fv = FeatureLoggerTestUtils.toFeatureVector(
+    final String docs0fv_sparse = FeatureLoggerTestUtils.toFeatureVector(
         "matchedTitle","1.0", "titlePhraseMatch","0.6103343");
+    final String docs0fv_dense = FeatureLoggerTestUtils.toFeatureVector(
+        "matchedTitle","1.0", "titlePhraseMatch","0.6103343", "titlePhrasesMatch","0.0");
     final String docs0fv_fstore4= FeatureLoggerTestUtils.toFeatureVector(
         "popularity","3.0", "originalScore","1.0");
 
+    final String docs0fv = chooseDefaultFeatureVector(docs0fv_dense, docs0fv_sparse);
+
     // extract all features in externalmodel's store (default store)
     // rerank using externalmodel (default store)
     final SolrQuery query = new SolrQuery();
     query.setQuery("*:*");
     query.add("fl", "*,score,fv:[fv]");
     query.add("rows", "5");
-    query.add("rq", "{!ltr reRankDocs=10 model=externalmodel efi.user_query=w3}");
+    query.add("rq", "{!ltr reRankDocs=10 model=externalmodel efi.user_query=w3 efi.userTitlePhrase1=w2 efi.userTitlePhrase2=w1}");
 
     assertJQ("/query" + query.toQueryString(), "/response/docs/[0]/id=='3'");
     assertJQ("/query" + query.toQueryString(), "/response/docs/[1]/id=='4'");
diff --git a/solr/contrib/ltr/src/test/org/apache/solr/ltr/feature/TestExternalFeatures.java b/solr/contrib/ltr/src/test/org/apache/solr/ltr/feature/TestExternalFeatures.java
index 4010ee1900c..c6ae30fcd58 100644
--- a/solr/contrib/ltr/src/test/org/apache/solr/ltr/feature/TestExternalFeatures.java
+++ b/solr/contrib/ltr/src/test/org/apache/solr/ltr/feature/TestExternalFeatures.java
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ public class TestExternalFeatures extends TestRerankBase {
 
     query.remove("fl");
     query.add("fl", "*,score,[fv]");
-    query.add("rq", "{!ltr reRankDocs=10 model=externalmodel efi.user_query=w3}");
+    query.add("rq", "{!ltr reRankDocs=10 model=externalmodel efi.user_query=w3 efi.userTitlePhrase1=w4 efi.userTitlePhrase2=w5}");
 
     assertJQ("/query" + query.toQueryString(), "/response/docs/[0]/id=='3'");
     assertJQ("/query" + query.toQueryString(), "/response/docs/[0]/score==0.7693934");
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ public class TestExternalFeatures extends TestRerankBase {
     // Adding an efi in the transformer should not affect the rq ranking with a
     // different value for efi of the same parameter
     query.remove("fl");
-    query.add("fl", "*,score,[fv efi.user_query=w2]");
+    query.add("fl", "*,score,[fv efi.user_query=w2 efi.userTitlePhrase1=w4 efi.userTitlePhrase2=w5]");
 
     assertJQ("/query" + query.toQueryString(), "/response/docs/[0]/id=='3'");
     assertJQ("/query" + query.toQueryString(), "/response/docs/[0]/score==0.7693934");
@@ -92,11 +92,12 @@ public class TestExternalFeatures extends TestRerankBase {
     query.add("fl", "*,score,fv:[fv]");
     query.add("rows", "1");
     // Stopword only query passed in
-    query.add("rq", "{!ltr reRankDocs=10 model=externalmodel efi.user_query='a'}");
+    query.add("rq", "{!ltr reRankDocs=10 model=externalmodel efi.user_query='a' efi.userTitlePhrase1='b' efi.userTitlePhrase2='c'}");
 
     final String docs0fv_dense_csv = FeatureLoggerTestUtils.toFeatureVector(
         "matchedTitle","0.0",
-        "titlePhraseMatch","0.0");
+        "titlePhraseMatch","0.0",
+        "titlePhrasesMatch","0.0");
     final String docs0fv_sparse_csv = FeatureLoggerTestUtils.toFeatureVector();
 
     final String docs0fv_default_csv = chooseDefaultFeatureVector(docs0fv_dense_csv, docs0fv_sparse_csv);
@@ -181,4 +182,20 @@ public class TestExternalFeatures extends TestRerankBase {
     query.add("fl", "fvalias:[fv store=fstore4]");
     assertJQ("/query" + query.toQueryString(), "/error/msg=='Exception from createWeight for ValueFeature [name=popularity, params={value=${myPop}, required=true}] ValueFeatureWeight requires efi parameter that was not passed in request.'");
   }
+
+  @Test
+  public void featureExtraction_valueFeatureRequiredInFq_shouldThrowException() throws Exception {
+    final String userTitlePhrase1 = "userTitlePhrase1";
+    final String userTitlePhrase2 = "userTitlePhrase2";
+    final String userTitlePhrasePresent = (random().nextBoolean() ? userTitlePhrase1 : userTitlePhrase2);
+
+    final SolrQuery query = new SolrQuery();
+    query.setQuery("*:*");
+    query.add("rows", "1");
+    query.add("fl", "score,features:[fv efi.user_query=uq "+userTitlePhrasePresent+"=utpp]");
+    assertJQ("/query" + query.toQueryString(), "/error/msg=='Exception from createWeight for "
+        + "SolrFeature [name=titlePhrasesMatch, params={fq=[{!field f=title}${"+userTitlePhrase1+"}, {!field f=title}${"+userTitlePhrase2+"}]}] "
+        + "SolrFeatureWeight requires efi parameter that was not passed in request.'");
+  }
+
 }