diff --git a/expat/tests/runtests.c b/expat/tests/runtests.c
index 6200b244..61e6f987 100644
--- a/expat/tests/runtests.c
+++ b/expat/tests/runtests.c
@@ -1747,7 +1747,7 @@ record_cdata_nodefault_handler(void *userData,
 /* Test XML_DefaultCurrent() passes handling on correctly */
 START_TEST(test_default_current)
 {
-    const char *text = "<doc>hello</doc>";
+    const char *text = "<doc>hell]</doc>";
     const char *entity_text =
         "<!DOCTYPE doc [\n"
         "<!ENTITY entity '&#37;'>\n"