diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c2e765b..c851a9d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-plugin-api</artifactId>
-        <version>3.0</version>
+        <version>3.9.5</version>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugin-tools</groupId>
diff --git a/src/changelog/.1.x.x/update_org_apache_maven_maven_plugin_api.xml b/src/changelog/.1.x.x/update_org_apache_maven_maven_plugin_api.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d40fd2a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/changelog/.1.x.x/update_org_apache_maven_maven_plugin_api.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<entry xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+       xmlns="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog"
+       xsi:schemaLocation="http://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog https://logging.apache.org/log4j/changelog-0.1.2.xsd"
+       type="changed">
+  <issue id="61" link="https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j-audit/pull/61"/>
+  <description format="asciidoc">Update `org.apache.maven:maven-plugin-api` to version `3.9.5`</description>
+</entry>