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genesis-wordpress currently has a 15 vulnerable dependency paths, introducing 7 different types of known vulnerabilities.

This PR fixes vulnerable dependencies, remote memory exposure vulnerability in the request dependency, ReDos vulnerability in the hawk dependency,Dos(Memory Exhaustion) vulnerability and Dos(Event Loop Blocking) vulnerability in the qs dependency.

You can see Snyk test report of this project for details.

This PR changes Package.json to upgrade request to the newer 2.74.0 version, and will fix the vulnerability listed above.
You can get alerts and fix PRs for future vulnerabilities for free by watching this repo with Snyk.

Note this PR fixes all the vulnerabilities introduced trough request dependency, in order to be vulnerability free you will need to upgrade other dependencies as well.

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The Snyk Team

genesis-wordpress currently has a 15 vulnerable dependency paths, introducing 7 different types of known vulnerabilities.

his PR fixes vulnerable dependencies, introducing [remote memory exposure ](https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:request:20160119) vulnerability in the `request` dependency, [ReDos vulnerability](https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:hawk:20160119) in the `hawk` dependency,[Dos(Memory Exhaustion) vulnerability](https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:qs:20140806) and [Dos(Event Loop Blocking) vulnerability](https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:qs:20140806-1) in the `qs` dependency.

You can see [Snyk test report](https://snyk.io/test/github/evolution/genesis-wordpress) of this project for details. 

This PR changes `Package.json` to upgrade `request` to the newer 2.74.0 version, and will fix the vulnerability listed above.
You can get alerts and fix PRs for future vulnerabilities for free by [watching this repo with Snyk](https://snyk.io/add).

Note this PR fixes all the vulnerabilities introduced trough `request` dependency, in order to be vulnerability free you will need to upgrade other dependencies as well.

Full disclosure: I'm a part of the Snyk team, just looking to spread some security goodness and awareness ;)
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