Upgrade express and related dependencies for security

[sumansaurabh]

User description

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

Snyk changed the following file(s):

• server/package.json
• server/package-lock.json

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed with an upgrade:

	Issue	Score
	Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) SNYK-JS-PATHTOREGEXP-7925106	738

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Description

• Upgraded express from version 4.18.2 to 4.20.0 to address security vulnerabilities.
• Updated body-parser and other dependencies to their latest versions.
• This PR resolves a vulnerability related to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS).

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Changes walkthrough 📝

Relevant files

Dependencies

package.json Update express dependency to latest version                            server/package.json Updated express dependency from version 4.18.2 to 4.20.0. +1/-1      package-lock.json Update package-lock with new dependency versions                  server/package-lock.json Updated express version to 4.20.0. Updated body-parser version to 1.20.3. Updated several other dependencies to their latest versions. +271/-69

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PR Review 🔍

⏱️ Estimated effort to review [1-5]	2, because the changes are primarily version updates in the package.json and package-lock.json files, which are straightforward to review.
🧪 Relevant tests	No
⚡ Possible issues	No
🔒 Security concerns	No

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PR Code Suggestions ✨

Category	Suggestion	Score
Possible issue	Verify compatibility of the upgraded dependency with existing packages Consider verifying compatibility of the new version of express with other dependencies to avoid potential issues. server/package.json [4] -"express": "^4.20.0", +"express": "^4.20.0", // Ensure compatibility with other dependencies Suggestion importance[1-10]: 7 Why: While it's important to ensure compatibility when upgrading dependencies, this suggestion does not address a specific bug or critical issue in the code. It is more of a best practice recommendation.	7