[Snyk] Security upgrade web3 from 1.3.1 to 1.7.5

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Snyk has created this PR to fix one or more vulnerable packages in the `npm` dependencies of this project.

Changes included in this PR

• Changes to the following files to upgrade the vulnerable dependencies to a fixed version:
  • package.json
  • package-lock.json

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed

With an upgrade:

Severity	Priority Score (*)	Issue	Breaking Change	Exploit Maturity
	484/1000 Why? Has a fix available, CVSS 5.4	Open Redirect SNYK-JS-GOT-2932019	No	No Known Exploit

(*) Note that the real score may have changed since the PR was raised.

Commit messages

Package name: web3

The new version differs by 169 commits.

• 02895cb Build for 1.7.5
• 34f6b68 v1.7.5
• 195f01d Manual build commit for 1.7.5-rc.1
• b640e26 v1.7.5-rc.1
• 96a7935 npm i
• 9476964 Merge branch '1.x' into release/1.7.5
• 84ac9b7 Fixed unit tests & removed dead code for web3-providers-http (#5228) (#5264)
• 2dcf142 Manual build commit for 1.7.5-rc.0
• ba30e1d v1.7.5-rc.0
• c93940b npm i and CHANGELOG update for 1.7.5 release
• fc7bfcd 1.x Libs Update including parse-url (#5254)
• ca827a7 fix Promise in Accounts.signTransaction() throwing errors that cannot be caught #4724 (#5080) (#5252)
• 35d8f7f Update AbstractProvider with correct typing (#5206)
• 57b6dc4 Add createAccessList type (#5146) (#5204)
• 46b5a5b fix remove wallet using an index when an account address and address lowercase are equal #5049 (#5050) (#5202)
• 2a1308f Fix transactionRoot -> transactionsRoot in BlockHeader (#5083) (#5197)
• 9e0d9d1 hexToNumber: return BigInt if result is bigger than max integer (#5157)
• 555aa0d web3-providers-http: Migrate from xhr2-cookies to cross-fetch (#5179)
• c034b8d Update `got` dependency for `web3-bzz` package (#5178)
• aae9d4a Updates on `README.md` Format (#5115)
• 8f05f19 Fixed documentation for web3.eth.accounts.signTransaction (#5121)
• 5b10473 Fix typo (#5116)
• 18da528 fix typos in web3-eth-accounts.rst & TESTING.md #5047 (#5048)
• e9ab4a5 Typo foudn (#5142)

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