diff --git a/src/wp-includes/l10n.php b/src/wp-includes/l10n.php
index f15775c87f49c..6a63f12a57b39 100644
--- a/src/wp-includes/l10n.php
+++ b/src/wp-includes/l10n.php
@@ -1058,14 +1058,17 @@ function load_child_theme_textdomain( $domain, $path = false ) {
  * @return string|false The translated strings in JSON encoding on success,
  *                      false if the script textdomain could not be loaded.
  */
-function load_script_textdomain( $handle, $domain = 'default', $path = null ) {
+function load_script_textdomain( $handle, $domain = 'default', $path = '' ) {
 	$wp_scripts = wp_scripts();
 
 	if ( ! isset( $wp_scripts->registered[ $handle ] ) ) {
 		return false;
 	}
 
-	$path   = untrailingslashit( $path );
+	if ( is_string( $path ) ) {
+		$path = untrailingslashit( $path );
+	}
+
 	$locale = determine_locale();
 
 	// If a path was given and the handle file exists simply return it.
diff --git a/tests/phpunit/tests/dependencies/scripts.php b/tests/phpunit/tests/dependencies/scripts.php
index ea3bc7bf718cc..b64edfeff9e2d 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit/tests/dependencies/scripts.php
+++ b/tests/phpunit/tests/dependencies/scripts.php
@@ -721,16 +721,6 @@ public function test_wp_add_inline_script_before_after_concat_with_core_dependen
 		$wp_scripts->base_url  = '';
 		$wp_scripts->do_concat = true;
 
-		if ( PHP_VERSION_ID >= 80100 ) {
-			/*
-			 * For the time being, ignoring PHP 8.1 "null to non-nullable" deprecations coming in
-			 * via hooked in filter functions until a more structural solution to the
-			 * "missing input validation" conundrum has been architected and implemented.
-			 */
-			$this->expectDeprecation();
-			$this->expectDeprecationMessageMatches( '`Passing null to parameter \#[0-9]+ \(\$[^\)]+\) of type [^ ]+ is deprecated`' );
-		}
-
 		$ver       = get_bloginfo( 'version' );
 		$suffix    = wp_scripts_get_suffix();
 		$expected  = "<script type='text/javascript' src='/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=0&amp;load%5Bchunk_0%5D=jquery-core,jquery-migrate,regenerator-runtime,wp-polyfill,wp-dom-ready,wp-hooks&amp;ver={$ver}'></script>\n";
@@ -783,16 +773,6 @@ public function test_wp_add_inline_script_customize_dependency() {
 		$wp_scripts->base_url  = '';
 		$wp_scripts->do_concat = true;
 
-		if ( PHP_VERSION_ID >= 80100 ) {
-			/*
-			 * For the time being, ignoring PHP 8.1 "null to non-nullable" deprecations coming in
-			 * via hooked in filter functions until a more structural solution to the
-			 * "missing input validation" conundrum has been architected and implemented.
-			 */
-			$this->expectDeprecation();
-			$this->expectDeprecationMessageMatches( '`Passing null to parameter \#[0-9]+ \(\$[^\)]+\) of type [^ ]+ is deprecated`' );
-		}
-
 		$expected_tail  = "<script type='text/javascript' src='/customize-dependency.js' id='customize-dependency-js'></script>\n";
 		$expected_tail .= "<script type='text/javascript' id='customize-dependency-js-after'>\n";
 		$expected_tail .= "tryCustomizeDependency()\n";
diff --git a/tests/phpunit/tests/l10n/loadScriptTextdomain.php b/tests/phpunit/tests/l10n/loadScriptTextdomain.php
index bc612d747149a..fab8aa8b5a999 100644
--- a/tests/phpunit/tests/l10n/loadScriptTextdomain.php
+++ b/tests/phpunit/tests/l10n/loadScriptTextdomain.php
@@ -131,4 +131,23 @@ public function relative_path_from_cdn( $relative, $src ) {
 
 		return $relative;
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Tests that PHP 8.1 "passing null to non-nullable" deprecation notice
+	 * is not thrown when passing the default `$path` to untrailingslashit() in the function.
+	 *
+	 * The notice that we should not see:
+	 * `Deprecated: rtrim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated`.
+	 *
+	 * @ticket 55967
+	 */
+	public function test_does_not_throw_deprecation_notice_for_rtrim_with_default_parameters() {
+		$handle = 'test-example-root';
+		$src    = '/wp-includes/js/script.js';
+
+		wp_enqueue_script( $handle, $src );
+
+		$expected = file_get_contents( DIR_TESTDATA . '/languages/en_US-813e104eb47e13dd4cc5af844c618754.json' );
+		$this->assertSame( $expected, load_script_textdomain( $handle ) );
+	}
 }