[Snyk] Security upgrade express from 4.21.2 to 4.22.0

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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-15268416	62

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Pull request overview

This PR upgrades Express from version 4.21.2 to 4.22.0 to address a medium-severity security vulnerability (SNYK-JS-QS-15268416) in the qs dependency package. The vulnerability relates to allocation of resources without limits or throttling, which could potentially be exploited for denial-of-service attacks through deeply nested query string parameters.

Changes:

• Upgrade Express from 4.21.2 to 4.22.0 in package.json
• Update package-lock.json with new Express version and updated qs dependency (6.13.0 → 6.14.2)
• Dependency version constraints normalized from exact to range versions using tilde (~) notation

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File	Description
package.json	Updates Express dependency version from ^4.21.2 to ^4.22.0
package-lock.json	Updates Express to 4.22.0, upgrades qs to 6.14.2 as nested dependency, and normalizes dependency version ranges

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