diff --git a/lib/plugins/create/templates/aws-kotlin-jvm-maven/pom.xml b/lib/plugins/create/templates/aws-kotlin-jvm-maven/pom.xml
index 59d5cae7099..737481ec59f 100644
--- a/lib/plugins/create/templates/aws-kotlin-jvm-maven/pom.xml
+++ b/lib/plugins/create/templates/aws-kotlin-jvm-maven/pom.xml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
-            <version>2.11.1</version>
+            <version>2.22.1</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
@@ -91,8 +91,7 @@
                 <configuration>
                     <createDependencyReducedPom>false</createDependencyReducedPom>
                     <transformers>
-                        <transformer
-                                implementation="com.github.edwgiz.mavenShadePlugin.log4j2CacheTransformer.PluginsCacheFileTransformer">
+                        <transformer implementation="com.github.edwgiz.mavenShadePlugin.log4j2CacheTransformer.PluginsCacheFileTransformer">
                         </transformer>
                     </transformers>
                 </configuration>