[Snyk] Security upgrade webpack-cli from 3.3.12 to 4.0.0

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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

⚠️ Warning

Failed to update the package-lock.json, please update manually before merging.

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed

With an upgrade:

Severity	Priority Score (*)	Issue	Breaking Change	Exploit Maturity
	768/1000 Why? Proof of Concept exploit, Recently disclosed, Has a fix available, CVSS 7.5	Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) SNYK-JS-ANSIREGEX-1583908	Yes	Proof of Concept

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

Commit messages

Package name: webpack-cli

The new version differs by 250 commits.

• fb50f76 chore(release): publish new version
• 2c75aeb chore: new version of the packages
• 0d05c30 chore(release): publish %s
• 3f9e151 chore: fix lerna config
• 2c1e34c tests(generator): enhance init generator tests (Is it possible to migrate an OAuth app to Github app without asking users to re-authenticate? github/docs#1236)
• 6ee61b9 Fix loader-generator and plugin-generator tests ($fuckchrisknight 041215663 1318664565848 github/docs#1250)
• 52956a2 Fixing the typos and grammatical errors in Readme files (content/rest/index.mdUpdate index.md github/docs#1246)
• 7faaed2 chore: update Bug_report & Feature_request Templates (Improve docs to be more explanatory github/docs#1256)
• 7a5b33d feat(webpack-cli): added mode argument (Explain how to use environment variables in a test matrix github/docs#1253)
• 3715756 tests(webpack-cli): add test case for defaults flag (Explain how to use environment variables in a test matrix github/docs#1254)
• a7cba2f chore: project maintanance and typescript fix (repo sync github/docs#1247)
• 7748472 chore: ignore package-lock.json and remove its references (Remove extraneous grammar period which breaks the compare URL github/docs#1252)
• a014aa7 docs: fix supported arguments & commands link in README (Dashboard github/docs#1244)
• 06129a1 feat(webpack-cli): add progress bar for progress flag (repo sync github/docs#1238)
• 6cc6a49 chore: post refactor CLI (Update restriction github/docs#1237)
• 358651e chore: move cli under lerna package (Update about-the-dependency-graph.md github/docs#1225)
• 2dc495a fix(init): fix webpack config scaffold (Avoid use branch for example workflows github/docs#1231)
• 1ab62d2 tests(generator): add tests for plugin generator (repo sync github/docs#1235)
• d2dd0c1 tests(sourcemap): fix flaky stats statement (SystemformNuch1991 github/docs#1232)
• f6dc680 tests(loader-generator): add tests for loader generator (Fix the table overflowing sidebar github/docs#1234)
• 35d1381 tests(generator): enable init generator test (index.md github/docs#1233)
• 66cdcb6 chore(generator): remove transpiled tests (Fixes #1190 github/docs#1229)
• f29a170 fix(init): fix the invalid package name (Issue: Improve existing docs github/docs#1228)
• 8c3a66d chore(cli): updated changelog of v3 (Add note that secret scanning endpoints should be able to handle larg… github/docs#1224)

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