Illegal string offset 'en_US'

Hello, I am a journal secretary and almost 2 years later I am having the same issue, but on several pages. I looked around to see if there was a fix for it on the forum but I couldn’t find any.

It seems that I get the error on the homepage, after logging in to the submissions tab and the Settings → journal tab, just above the website header.

How can i fix this?

Warning : Illegal string offset ‘en_US’ in /home2/ki301910/public_html/lib/pkp/classes/core/DataObject.inc.php on line 133

Warning : Cannot assign an empty string to a string offset in /home2/ki301910/public_html/lib/pkp/classes/core/DataObject.inc.php on line 133

I think our hosting provider upgraded the PHP version, but I am not sure.
Thank you!
Silviu.