[Snyk] Security upgrade express from 4.17.3 to 4.22.0

[Arifkarakilic]

Snyk has created this PR to fix 1 vulnerabilities in the npm dependencies of this project.

Snyk changed the following file(s):

• package.json
• package-lock.json

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed with an upgrade:

	Issue	Score
	Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling SNYK-JS-QS-14724253	828

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Pull request overview

This PR upgrades the Express framework from version 4.17.3 to 4.22.0 to address a high-severity security vulnerability (SNYK-JS-QS-14724253) related to "Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling" in the qs dependency. The upgrade is automatically generated by Snyk and includes updates to numerous transitive dependencies.

• Updates Express to address CVE with severity score of 828/1000
• Updates the qs package from 6.9.7 to 6.14.1, which is the root cause of the vulnerability
• Cascading updates to Express dependencies including body-parser, finalhandler, send, and serve-static

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File	Description
package.json	Updates Express version constraint from ^4.17.3 to ^4.22.0
package-lock.json	Updates Express and all transitive dependencies with new resolved versions, integrity hashes, and dependency tree structure including new packages like side-channel, get-intrinsic, and various ES utility modules

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