diff --git a/tests/phpunit/tests/dependencies/scripts.php b/tests/phpunit/tests/dependencies/scripts.php
index 2b385e733d694..2863a5ec9b535 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit/tests/dependencies/scripts.php
+++ b/tests/phpunit/tests/dependencies/scripts.php
@@ -1426,12 +1426,7 @@ public function test_wp_localize_script_data_formats( $l10n_data, $expected, $wa
 			if ( PHP_VERSION_ID < 80000 ) {
 				$this->expectWarning();
 			} else {
-				/*
-				 * As this exception will only be set on PHP 8 in combination with PHPUnit 7, this will work (for now).
-				 * Once the PHPUnit version constraints have been widened and a _supported_ PHPUnit version is
-				 * used to run the tests on PHP 8.x, this should be changed to `$this->expectError()`.
-				 */
-				$this->expectException( 'Error' );
+				$this->expectError();
 			}
 		}