diff --git a/headers/modsecurity/assay.h b/headers/modsecurity/assay.h
index abdfc984..c7abe9a5 100644
--- a/headers/modsecurity/assay.h
+++ b/headers/modsecurity/assay.h
@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ class Assay {
 
     void store_variable(std::string, const std::string &value);
     bool update_variable_first(std::string var, const std::string &value);
+    void delete_variable(std::string key);
 
     ModSecurityStringVariables m_variables_strings;
 
diff --git a/src/assay.cc b/src/assay.cc
index e753127d..3ed2a26a 100644
--- a/src/assay.cc
+++ b/src/assay.cc
@@ -1139,6 +1139,10 @@ bool Assay::update_variable_first(std::string var, const std::string &value) {
     return false;
 }
 
+void Assay::delete_variable(std::string key) {
+    this->m_variables_strings.erase(key);
+}
+
 
 std::list<std::pair<std::string, std::string>>
     Assay::resolve_variable(std::string var) {
diff --git a/src/parser/seclang-scanner.ll b/src/parser/seclang-scanner.ll
index 30dc0a39..87ba3966 100755
--- a/src/parser/seclang-scanner.ll
+++ b/src/parser/seclang-scanner.ll
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ OPERATORNOARG	(?i:@detectSQLi|@detectXSS|@geoLookup|@validateUrlEncoding|@valida
 
 TRANSFORMATION  t:(lowercase|urlDecodeUni|urlDecode|none|compressWhitespace|removeWhitespace|replaceNulls|removeNulls|htmlEntityDecode|jsDecode|cssDecode|trim)
 
-VARIABLE          (?i:MATCHED_VAR|INBOUND_DATA_ERROR|FULL_REQUEST|FILES|AUTH_TYPE|ARGS_NAMES|ARGS|QUERY_STRING|REMOTE_ADDR|REQUEST_BASENAME|REQUEST_BODY|REQUEST_COOKIES_NAMES|REQUEST_COOKIES|REQUEST_FILENAME|REQUEST_HEADERS_NAMES|REQUEST_HEADERS|REQUEST_METHOD|REQUEST_PROTOCOL|REQUEST_URI|RESPONSE_BODY|RESPONSE_CONTENT_LENGTH|RESPONSE_CONTENT_TYPE|RESPONSE_HEADERS_NAMES|RESPONSE_HEADERS|RESPONSE_PROTOCOL|RESPONSE_STATUS|TX|GEO)
+VARIABLE          (?i:MATCHED_VAR|MATCHED_VARS|INBOUND_DATA_ERROR|FULL_REQUEST|FILES|AUTH_TYPE|ARGS_NAMES|ARGS|QUERY_STRING|REMOTE_ADDR|REQUEST_BASENAME|REQUEST_BODY|REQUEST_COOKIES_NAMES|REQUEST_COOKIES|REQUEST_FILENAME|REQUEST_HEADERS_NAMES|REQUEST_HEADERS|REQUEST_METHOD|REQUEST_PROTOCOL|REQUEST_URI|RESPONSE_BODY|RESPONSE_CONTENT_LENGTH|RESPONSE_CONTENT_TYPE|RESPONSE_HEADERS_NAMES|RESPONSE_HEADERS|RESPONSE_PROTOCOL|RESPONSE_STATUS|TX|GEO)
 RUN_TIME_VAR_DUR  (?i:DURATION)
 RUN_TIME_VAR_ENV  (?i:ENV)
 RUN_TIME_VAR_BLD  (?i:MODSEC_BUILD)
diff --git a/src/rule.cc b/src/rule.cc
index f0918f29..51b19af6 100644
--- a/src/rule.cc
+++ b/src/rule.cc
@@ -113,15 +113,19 @@ bool Rule::evaluate(Assay *assay) {
                     assay->debug(4, "Running action: " + a->action);
                     a->evaluate(assay);
                 }
-
+                if (this->chained && this->chainedRule == NULL) {
+                    assay->debug(4, "Rule is marked as chained but there isn't a subsequent rule.");
+                }
                 if (this->chained && this->chainedRule != NULL) {
                     assay->debug(4, "Executing chained rule.");
                     if (assay->update_variable_first("MATCHED_VAR",
                         value) == false) {
                         assay->store_variable("MATCHED_VAR", value);
                     }
+                    assay->store_variable("MATCHED_VARS:" + v.first, value);
                     this->chainedRule->evaluate(assay);
                     assay->update_variable_first("MATCHED_VAR", "");
+                    assay->delete_variable("MATCHED_VARS:" + v.first);
                 }
             } else {
                 assay->debug(4, "Rule returned 0.");
diff --git a/test/test-cases/regression/variable-MATCHED_VARS.json b/test/test-cases/regression/variable-MATCHED_VARS.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dcfa903d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/test-cases/regression/variable-MATCHED_VARS.json
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+[
+  {
+    "enabled":1,
+    "version_min":300000,
+    "title":"Testing Variables :: MATCHED_VARS (1/2)",
+    "client":{
+      "ip":"200.249.12.31",
+      "port":123
+    },
+    "server":{
+      "ip":"200.249.12.31",
+      "port":80
+    },
+    "request":{
+      "headers":{
+        "Host":"localhost",
+        "User-Agent":"curl/7.38.0",
+        "Accept":"*/*"
+      },
+      "uri":"/?keyI=value&keyII=other_value",
+      "protocol":"GET"
+    },
+    "response":{
+      "headers":{
+        "Date":"Mon, 13 Jul 2015 20:02:41 GMT",
+        "Last-Modified":"Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:33:37 GMT",
+        "Content-Type":"text/html"
+      },
+      "body":[
+        "no need."
+      ]
+    },
+    "expected":{
+      "debug_log":"Target value: \"value\" \\(Variable: MATCHED_VARS:ARGS:keyI\\)"
+    },
+    "rules":[
+      "SecRuleEngine On",
+      "SecDebugLog \/tmp\/modsec_debug.log",
+      "SecDebugLogLevel 9",
+      "SecRule ARGS:keyI \"@contains value\" \"chain,id:28\"",
+      "SecRule ARGS:keyII \"@contains other_value\" \"chain\"",
+      "SecRule MATCHED_VARS \"@contains asdf\" \"pass\""
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "enabled":1,
+    "version_min":300000,
+    "title":"Testing Variables :: MATCHED_VARS (2/2)",
+    "client":{
+      "ip":"200.249.12.31",
+      "port":123
+    },
+    "server":{
+      "ip":"200.249.12.31",
+      "port":80
+    },
+    "request":{
+      "headers":{
+        "Host":"localhost",
+        "User-Agent":"curl/7.38.0",
+        "Accept":"*/*"
+      },
+      "uri":"/?keyI=value&keyII=other_value",
+      "protocol":"GET"
+    },
+    "response":{
+      "headers":{
+        "Date":"Mon, 13 Jul 2015 20:02:41 GMT",
+        "Last-Modified":"Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:33:37 GMT",
+        "Content-Type":"text/html"
+      },
+      "body":[
+        "no need."
+      ]
+    },
+    "expected":{
+      "debug_log":"Target value: \"value\" \\(Variable: MATCHED_VARS:ARGS:keyI\\)"
+    },
+    "rules":[
+      "SecRuleEngine On",
+      "SecDebugLog \/tmp\/modsec_debug.log",
+      "SecDebugLogLevel 9",
+      "SecRule ARGS:keyI \"@contains value\" \"chain,id:28\"",
+      "SecRule ARGS:keyII \"@contains other_value\" \"chain\"",
+      "SecRule MATCHED_VARS \"@contains asdf\" \"pass\"",
+      "SecRule MATCHED_VARS \"@contains value\" \"id:29\""
+    ]
+  }
+]
+