diff --git a/src/Controllers/Import/SimulateDmlController.php b/src/Controllers/Import/SimulateDmlController.php
index c43745797a..5b907db1b4 100644
--- a/src/Controllers/Import/SimulateDmlController.php
+++ b/src/Controllers/Import/SimulateDmlController.php
@@ -75,6 +75,12 @@ final class SimulateDmlController implements InvocableController
 
     private function process(Parser $parser): void
     {
+        if ($parser->errors !== []) {
+            $this->error = $parser->errors[0]->getMessage();
+
+            return;
+        }
+
         foreach ($parser->statements as $statement) {
             if (
                 ! $statement instanceof UpdateStatement && ! $statement instanceof DeleteStatement
diff --git a/tests/unit/Controllers/Import/SimulateDmlControllerTest.php b/tests/unit/Controllers/Import/SimulateDmlControllerTest.php
index ba6af47423..d8f54d62ca 100644
--- a/tests/unit/Controllers/Import/SimulateDmlControllerTest.php
+++ b/tests/unit/Controllers/Import/SimulateDmlControllerTest.php
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ use PhpMyAdmin\Controllers\Import\SimulateDmlController;
 use PhpMyAdmin\Core;
 use PhpMyAdmin\Current;
 use PhpMyAdmin\Html\Generator;
+use PhpMyAdmin\Http\Factory\ServerRequestFactory;
 use PhpMyAdmin\Import\SimulateDml;
 use PhpMyAdmin\SqlParser\Parser;
 use PhpMyAdmin\SqlParser\Statements\DeleteStatement;
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@ use PHPUnit\Framework\Attributes\CoversClass;
 use PHPUnit\Framework\Attributes\DataProvider;
 
 use function count;
+use function json_decode;
 
 #[CoversClass(SimulateDmlController::class)]
 final class SimulateDmlControllerTest extends AbstractTestCase
@@ -276,4 +278,31 @@ final class SimulateDmlControllerTest extends AbstractTestCase
             ],
         ];
     }
+
+    public function testStatementWithParsingError(): void
+    {
+        Current::$sqlQuery = 'UPDATE actor SET';
+
+        $request = ServerRequestFactory::create()->createServerRequest('POST', 'https://example.com/')
+            ->withParsedBody(['sql_delimiter' => ';']);
+
+        $responseRenderer = new ResponseRenderer();
+        $responseRenderer->setAjax(true);
+        $controller = new SimulateDmlController($responseRenderer, new SimulateDml($this->createDatabaseInterface()));
+        $response = $controller($request);
+
+        $expectedMessage = <<<'HTML'
+            <div class="alert alert-danger" role="alert">
+              <img src="themes/dot.gif" title="" alt="" class="icon ic_s_error"> Missing assignment in SET operation.
+            </div>
+
+            HTML;
+
+        $body = (string) $response->getBody();
+        self::assertJson($body);
+        self::assertSame(
+            ['message' => $expectedMessage, 'sql_data' => false, 'success' => true],
+            json_decode($body, true),
+        );
+    }
 }