Steps to reproduce the issue

Create a menu for of type articles list with enough articles for there to be pagination

Expected result

Use the pagination without error

Actual result

4.0

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in C:\htdocs\joomla-cms\components\com_content\tmpl\category\default_articles.php on line 24

Staging - protostar

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in C:\htdocs\cms\components\com_content\views\category\tmpl\default_articles.php on line 18

Staging - beez

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in C:\htdocs\cms\templates\beez3\html\com_content\category\default_articles.php on line 17

System information (as much as possible)

php 7.4

Additional comments

I only checked article lists - this may be present for other lists