[Snyk] Upgrade express from 4.21.2 to 4.22.1

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Snyk has created this PR to upgrade express from 4.21.2 to 4.22.1.

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Package name: express

• 4.22.1 - 2025-12-01
  

  What's Changed

  Important

  The prior release (4.22.0) included an erroneous breaking change related to the extended query parser. There is no actual security vulnerability associated with this behavior (CVE-2024-51999 has been rejected). The change has been fully reverted in this release.

  • Release: 4.22.1 by @ UlisesGascon in #6934

  Full Changelog: 4.22.0...v4.22.1

• 4.22.0 - 2025-12-01
  

  Important: Security

  • Security fix for CVE-2024-51999 (GHSA-pj86-cfqh-vqx6)

  What's Changed

  • Refactor: improve readability by @ sazk07 in #6190
  • ci: add support for Node.js@23.0 by @ UlisesGascon in #6080
  • Method functions with no path should error by @ wesleytodd in #5957
  • ci: updated github actions ci workflow by @ Phillip9587 in #6323
  • ci: reorder npm i steps to fix ci for older node versions by @ Phillip9587 in #6336
  • Backport: ci: add node.js 24 to test matrix by @ Phillip9587 in #6506
  • chore(4.x): wider range for query test skip by @ jonchurch in #6513
  • use tilde notation for certain dependencies by @ UlisesGascon in #6905
  • deps: qs@6.14.0 by @ UlisesGascon in #6909
  • deps: use tilde notation for qs by @ Phillip9587 in #6919
  • Release: 4.22.0 by @ UlisesGascon in #6921

  Full Changelog: 4.21.2...4.22.0

• 4.21.2 - 2024-12-05
  

  What's Changed

  • Add funding field (v4) by @ bjohansebas in #6065
  • deps: path-to-regexp@0.1.11 by @ blakeembrey in #5956
  • deps: bump path-to-regexp@0.1.12 by @ jonchurch in #6209
  • Release: 4.21.2 by @ UlisesGascon in #6094

  Full Changelog: 4.21.1...4.21.2

from express GitHub release notes

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