[master branch ] fix: package security alerts

[anikethsaha]

Summary
There where approx of 90 high-security alerts and the npm audit fix PR merge recently was for the develop branch which I think is not currently published. Made one to fix them

Will merge this soon if not getting a review as this is quite an urgent step

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  Closes few of the audit issues

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[anikethsaha]

@timaschew Should I revert this ? in favor of this #934

I added this as I thought develop is for v5.

cc @felangel