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Just wanted to get a straight answer on this: when submitting query_vars to a call to get_posts or WP_Query, is sanitation needed or does WordPress already take care of that?

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No. Parameters given to the WP_Query object only need to be escaped for the database query - this is handled by WordPress.

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