It may considerably reduce XSS attack possibilities if not completely eradicate it. XSS, or Cross Site Scripting, is probably the most common security problems in web applications that engage in heavy user input. If you’ve ever tried to build a web application that users can input data in a lot of different venues, chances are it has a security hole somewhere that allows XSS attacks. Don’t panic though. Most web applications, even the most sophisticated ones developed by the best programmers such as vBulletin and WordPress release patches from time to time to fix XSS holes.
