diff --git a/R/api-attachments.R b/R/api-attachments.R
index 66be01a..264231c 100644
--- a/R/api-attachments.R
+++ b/R/api-attachments.R
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 ##   --form 'attachment=@/path/to/the/file/example.png'
 
 ## ... can be used to pass type argument to httr::upload_file
-cu_post_task_attachment <- function(task_id, attachment, filename=NULL, ...) {
+cu_post_task_attachment <- function(task_id, attachment, filename=NULL, ..., cu_token = NULL) {
     task_id <- cu_task_id(task_id)
     if (is.null(filename))
         filename <- basename(attachment)
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ cu_post_task_attachment <- function(task_id, attachment, filename=NULL, ...) {
         httr::modify_url(getOption("cu_options")$baseurl,
             path = .cu_path("task", task_id, "attachment")),
         httr::add_headers(
-            Authorization = cu_get_pat(),
+            Authorization = cu_get_pat(token = cu_token),
             "Content-Type" = "multipart/form-data"),
         httr::accept_json(),
         body=list(