diff --git a/tests/routes/api/auth/index.js b/tests/routes/api/auth/index.js
index 6bb46b2af..d01ddd8c7 100644
--- a/tests/routes/api/auth/index.js
+++ b/tests/routes/api/auth/index.js
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ describe('/api/v1/auth/local', () => {
     it('should send back the user on a successful login', () => {
       return chai.request(app)
         .post('/api/v1/auth/local')
-        .field('_csrf', req.csrfToken())
+        .field('_csrf', 'generate csrf token') <--- we need to generate the csrf token that needs to be send from the request
         .send({email: 'maria@gmail.com', password: 'password!'})
         .catch((res) => {
           expect(res).to.have.status(200);