Security issues with PHP with cPanel and shared hosting
<p>If this is not the correct forum for this question please tell me!</p>

<p>When one has an account on a shared server host running cPanel, the account runs in a jailed environment where access to files is restricted to /home/myaccount/ and its subdirectories.  However PHP runs as root, so is there any security issue possible where another (malicious) user could craft php scripts in such a manner as to access files in another users file area. I have heard conflicting stories about this and would like a definitive answer from a "server guru".</p>