add sanitize html types

packages/server/package.json

@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
         "@types/cors": "^2.8.12",
         "@types/crypto-js": "^4.1.1",
         "@types/multer": "^1.4.7",
+        "@types/sanitize-html": "^2.9.5",
         "concurrently": "^7.1.0",
         "nodemon": "^2.0.15",
         "oclif": "^3",

packages/server/src/utils/XSS.ts

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 import { Request, Response, NextFunction } from 'express'
-const sanitizeHtml = require('sanitize-html')
+import sanitizeHtml from 'sanitize-html'
 
 export function sanitizeMiddleware(req: Request, res: Response, next: NextFunction): void {
     // decoding is necessary as the url is encoded by the browser
     const decodedURI = decodeURI(req.url)
     req.url = sanitizeHtml(decodedURI)
     for (let p in req.query) {
-        req.query[p] = sanitizeHtml(req.query[p])
+        req.query[p] = sanitizeHtml(req.query[p] as string)
     }
 
     next()