We detected that your site is not verifying reCAPTCHA tokens

My replies to another (unresolved) topic were deleted for some reason, so I am posting a new thread about the error we suddenly started seeing as of 12/1 (it had been working fine up until then). The error message in my Recaptcha account is, “We detected that your site is not verifying reCAPTCHA tokens.”

Looking at the page source code, and I have no idea if this means anything, I noticed that the code for the script is:

script src='https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js?render=12345678abcdef910 &#038 ; ver=3.0'

… where the ampersand is showing as the ascii code instead (& #038 ; instead of just the actual & symbol). Not sure if that means anything or not? But any chance a developer has any fix for this? Looks like it’s been reported by many users for about a year with no response from the developer, so hoping someone is able to take a look!