[Snyk] Security upgrade plotly.js from 1.58.5 to 2.18.1

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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
	586/1000 Why? Proof of Concept exploit, Has a fix available, CVSS 5.3	Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) SNYK-JS-D3COLOR-1076592	Yes	Proof of Concept

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

Commit messages

Package name: plotly.js

The new version differs by 250 commits.

• 0e197e6 2.18.1
• f4631ec update changelog and readme for v2.18.1
• fb2e544 Merge pull request #6466 from plotly/fix-hover-IE
• a0c6ec0 log for PR 6466
• eaad4f7 remove unnecessary checks for dom rects
• f34a9ba fix hover on IE - note getBoundingClientRect on IE has no x and y
• 242708d Merge pull request #6464 from plotly/security-dep-29
• 042660b bump ua-parser-js
• 0357c1e Merge pull request #6463 from plotly/bump-d3-interpolate-v3.0.1
• 4779da5 log for PR 6463
• 892ed55 adjust webpack config
• 27fff95 bump d3-interpolate v3.0.1 & d3-color v3.1.0 to fix audit
• 2cb83b3 Merge pull request #6461 from plotly/update-script-src
• b3db7f9 Merge pull request #6462 from plotly/simplify-karma-config
• 2b31c39 replace shortcut paths in jasmine to real paths
• 8b8489c delete tasks/util/shortcut_paths.js
• 6f003fc use identical webpack rules in karma config
• c18797b Update README.md
• 51e7512 Merge pull request #6445 from plotly/no-vector-effect-static-plot
• 72bafd6 draft log for PR 6445
• 653f5bc update baselines
• 8acab11 do not add vector-effect on static plots
• a4f6249 2.18.0
• 653b514 update changelog and readme for v2.18.0

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