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> Or someone can send you a URL that points to your dev server and contains a payload.

That is theoretically possible, though what they would be able to do is to deal damage to my development install (if I don't to CSRF protection on POST operations) or they could potentially hijack my current session on my development system, which, too I don't deem too critical.

> who uses shared hosting where display_errors is enabled by default

   init_set('display_errors', 0);
Even on a shared host you can turn display_errors off.

> There is no good reason PHP should be displaying this information unsanitized.

I agree, especially because they already do some escaping of their own errors (and consequently don't escape while running in the CLI SAPI)



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