Wordpress installed site theme gave an safety alert on some page - wordpress

My colleague has installed a wordpress theme for our project and asked me to update the content on that site. so i did the same.
But unfortunately after i updated the site, he was checking the dashboard on his computer, hence it gave an error saying
"Deceptive site ahead,
Attackers in this site may trick you on doing dangerous things... and so on.."
Now he is blaming me on making this theme vulnerable.
But i just updated the content only by opening the dashboard in my laptop.
Can anyone let me know how this happened.
Please find the attached image for reference of error..
warning error given by the site on its dashboard

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